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| 9797759912 | BP | Before Present | 0 | |
| 9797759913 | BPO | Business Process Outsourcing Business process outsourcing is a form of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions to a third-party service provider. Originally this was associated with manufacturing firms such as Coca Cola that outsourced large segments of its supply chain. In the contemporary context it is primarily used to refer to the outsourcing of services. | 1 | |
| 9797759914 | BRIC | Brazil, Russia, India, China | 2 | |
| 9797759915 | BRP | British Received Pronunciation (British Recieved Pronunciation) the dialect of english associated with upper-class Britons living in the London area and now considered standard in the United Kingdom. | 3 | |
| 9797759916 | CAP | Common Agricultural Policy the agricultural policy of the European Union.. It implements a system of agricultural subsidies and other programmes | 4 | |
| 9797759917 | CBD | Central Business District the commercial (and sometimes cultural) heart of a city. It is dominated shops and offices many of which are found in tall skyscrapers. | 5 | |
| 9797759918 | CBR | Crude Birth Rate the total number of live births in a year for 1,000 people alive in a society | 6 | |
| 9797759919 | CDR | Crude Death Rate the total number of deaths in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society | 7 | |
| 9797759920 | CFC | Chlorofluorocarbons chemicals that break down the ozone layer. | 8 | |
| 9797759921 | CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991. | 9 | |
| 9797759922 | CMSA | Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area MSA's with overlapping commuting patterns that are combined. (Los Angeles—Anaheim—Riverside; N.Y.—Northern New Jersey—Long Island) | 10 | |
| 9797759923 | COMECON | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance an organization for economic cooperation in European Communist states | 11 | |
| 9797759924 | DDT | Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (pesticide). A colorless odorless water-insoluble crystalline insecticide that tends to accumulate in ecosystems and has toxic effects on many vertebrates; became the most widely used pesticide from WWII to the 1950's; implicated in illnesses and environmental problem; now banned in the US. | 12 | |
| 9797759925 | DINK | Double Income No Kids a household in which there are two income and no children. | 13 | |
| 9797759926 | DMZ | Demilitarized Zone A region where no military forces or weapons are permitted. | 14 | |
| 9797759927 | EC | European Community A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment | 15 | |
| 9797759928 | EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone as established in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a zone of exploration extending 200 nautical miles (370 km) seaward from a coastal state that has exclusive mineral and fishing rights over it. | 16 | |
| 9797759929 | EPZ | Export Processing Zone areas within developing countries that offer incentives and a barrier-free environment to promote economic growth by attracting foreign investment | 17 | |
| 9797759930 | ESA | Environmentally Sensitive Area a type of designation for an agricultural area which needs special protection because of its landscape, wildlife or historical value. | 18 | |
| 9797759931 | EU | European Union an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members. | 19 | |
| 9797759932 | GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade A treaty created following the conclusion of World War II. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was implemented to further regulate world trade to aide in the economic recovery following the war. | 20 | |
| 9797759933 | GDI | Gender-related Development Index an index designed to measure of gender equality. | 21 | |
| 9797759934 | GDP | Gross Domestic Product the total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during one year. | 22 | |
| 9797759935 | GEM | Gender Empowerment Index index designed to measure of gender equality. | 23 | |
| 9797759936 | GIS | Geographic Information System (Geomatics) a computer system for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to positions on Earth's surface. | 24 | |
| 9797759937 | GM | Genetically Modified (of an organism or crop) containing genetic material that has been artificially altered so as to produce a desired characteristic. | 25 | |
| 9797759938 | GNI | Gross National Income the sum of value added by all producers who are residents in a nation, plus any product taxes (minus subsidies) not included in output, plus income received from abroad such as employee compensation and property income. | 26 | |
| 9797759939 | GPS | Global Positioning System is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the earth. | 27 | |
| 9797759940 | GRDI | Global Retail Development Index | 28 | |
| 9797759941 | HDI | Human Development Index measure of quality of life using factors like life expectancy, literacy, access to clean water, income, etc. | 29 | |
| 9797759942 | HIV | Human Immunodeficiency Virus virus that cause the immune system to fail. | 30 | |
| 9797759943 | AIDS | Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy. | 31 | |
| 9797759944 | IMF | International Monetary Fund is an international organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., in the United States, of 188 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. | 32 | |
| 9797759945 | IMR | Infant Mortality Rate an estimate of the number of infant deaths for every 1,000 live births. | 33 | |
| 9797759946 | IT | Information Technology the study or use of systems (especially computers and telecommunications) for storing, retrieving, and sending information. | 34 | |
| 9797759947 | LAFTA | Latin American Free Trade Association Created in the 1960 Treaty of Montevideo by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. The signatories hoped to create a common market in Latin America and offered tariff rebates among member nations. | 35 | |
| 9797759948 | LDC | Less Developed Country A country that has low levels of average wealth, industrialization and modernization and often high levels of population growth and people employed in agriculture | 36 | |
| 9797759949 | LEDC | Less Economically Developed Country a country with low to moderate industrialization and low to moderate average GNP per capita. | 37 | |
| 9797759950 | LNG | Liquefied Natural Gas is natural gas that has been converted to liquid form for ease of storage or transport | 38 | |
| 9797759951 | MDC | More Developed Country Countries with higher levels of per capita income, industrialization and modernization. they usually have lower levels of population growth. The developed region includes all of Europe, Canada, the U.S., Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the USSR | 39 | |
| 9797759952 | MEDC | More Economically Developed Country a highly industrialized country with high average GNP per capita. | 40 | |
| 9797759953 | MSA | Metropolitan Statistical Area is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the area. | 41 | |
| 9797759954 | NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries | 42 | |
| 9797759955 | NGO | Non-Government Organization is an organization that is neither a part of a government nor a conventional for-profit business. | 43 | |
| 9797759956 | NIC | Newly Industrialized Country term used by political scientists and economists to describe a country whose level of economic development ranks it somewhere between the developing and first-world classifications. | 44 | |
| 9797759957 | NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement A trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico that encourages free trade between these North American countries. | 45 | |
| 9797759958 | NIR | Natural Increase Rate is the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population. When looking at countries, it gives an idea of what position in the Demographic Transition Model it is at. | 46 | |
| 9797759959 | OAS | Organization of American States an organization formed in 1948 for the purpose of coordinated action in economic, political, and military matters: members are Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. | 47 | |
| 9797759960 | OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development A group of 30 member countries that discuss and develop economic and social policy. | 48 | |
| 9797759961 | OAU | Organization of African Union an organization of African states established in 2002 as successor to the OAU; it aims to encourage economic development and political stability through increased cooperation between its members. | 49 | |
| 9797759962 | OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries An organization consisting of the world's major oil-exporting nations. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members, and to provide member states with technical and economic aid. | 50 | |
| 9797759963 | PPP | Purchasing Power Parity An economic theory that estimates the amount of adjustment needed on the exchange rate between countries in order for the exchange to be equivalent to each currency's purchasing power. | 51 | |
| 9797759964 | RIC | Recently Industrialized Country a country that has barely reached a level of industrialization and reached a new level in the DTM. | 52 | |
| 9797759965 | RNI | Rate of Natural Increase is the crude birth rate minus the crude death rate of a population. | 53 | |
| 9797759966 | SEZ | Special Economic Zone Designated areas in countries that possess special economic regulations that are different from other areas in the same country. | 54 | |
| 9797759967 | TNC | Transnational Corporation A company that conducts research, operates factories, and sells products in many countries, not just where its headquarters or shareholders are located. | 55 | |
| 9797759968 | TFR | Total Fertility Rate the average number of children that would be born to a woman over her lifetime if. | 56 | |
| 9797759969 | UAE | United Arab Emirates a group of seven emirates in SW Asia, on the Persian Gulf: consists of Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al Qaiwain, Ras el Khaimah, and Fujairah; a former British protectorate; became fully independent in 1971; consists mostly of flat desert, with mountains in the east; rich petroleum resources. Official language: Arabic. Official religion: Muslim. Currency: dirham. Capital: Abu Dhabi. Pop: 3 051 000 (2004 est). Area: 83 600 sq km (32 300 sq miles). Former name (until 1971): Trucial States | 57 | |
| 9797759970 | UK | United Kingdom a kingdom of NW Europe, consisting chiefly of the island of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland: became the world's leading colonial power in the 18th century; the first country to undergo the Industrial Revolution. It became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1921, after the rest of Ireland became autonomous as the Irish Free State. Primarily it is a trading nation, the chief exports being manufactured goods; joined the Common Market (now the European Union) in January 1973. Official language: English; Gaelic, Welsh, and other minority languages. Religion: Christian majority. Currency: pound sterling. Capital: London. Pop: 59 428 000 (2004 est). Area: 244 110 sq km (94 251 sq miles). | 58 | |
| 9797759971 | UNO | United Nation Organization An international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries. | 59 | |
| 9797759972 | WTO | World Trade Organization is the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At its heart are the WTO agreements, negotiated and signed by the bulk of the world's trading nations and ratified in their parliaments. | 60 | |
| 9797759973 | ZPG | Zero Population Growth the maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to only what is needed to replace the existing population. | 61 |
