A |
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ASEAN |
Association of SouthEast Asian Nations (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) |
ASEAN+3 |
Association of SouthEast Asian Nations plus China, Japan and South Korea |
C |
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CAP |
Common Agriculture Policy |
CEEC |
Central and Eastern European Countries |
CEPII |
Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Information Internationales |
CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
COMECON |
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance |
CU |
Co-ordination Unit |
D |
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DAC |
Development Aid Committee |
E |
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EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
EIB |
European Investment Bank |
ENP |
European Neighbourhood Policy |
EPO |
European Patent Office |
ESDP |
European Spatial Development Perspective |
ESPON |
European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion |
EU |
European Union |
EU25 |
European Union with 25 members |
EU27 |
European Union with 27 Members |
EU27 + 2 |
European Union with 27 Members plus Switzerland and Norway |
EU27 + 8 |
European Union with 27 Members plus Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey |
F |
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FDI |
Foreign Direct Investments |
FUA |
Functional Urban Area |
G |
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GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
GDP (ppp) |
Gross Domestic Product purchasing power parity. |
GIS |
Geographic Information System |
H |
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HDI |
Human Development Indicators |
HDR |
Human Development Report |
I |
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ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organization |
ICT |
Information and Communications Technology |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
INTERREG |
Community initiative which aims to stimulate interregional cooperation |
IS |
Information Society |
ISPA |
Instrument for Structural Policy for Pre-Accession |
K |
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KTEN |
Know Trans-European Networks model |
L |
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LAU |
Local Administrative Units |
M |
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MASST |
Macroeconomic, Sectoral, Social and Territorial model |
MAUP |
Modifiable Areas Unit Problem |
MC |
Monitoring Committee |
MEGA |
Metropolitan European Growth Areas |
MERCOSUR |
Southern Common Market (Mercado Común del Sur) (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela) |
MERCOSUR+5 |
Southern Common Market plus Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
N |
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NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement (Canada, United States, Mexico) |
NGO |
Non Governmental Organisation |
NIS |
Newly Independent States |
NMS |
New Member States |
NUTS |
Nomenclature d’Unités Territoriales Statistiques (nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) |
O |
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OECD |
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development |
P |
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PC-TAS |
Personal Computer Trade Analysis System |
PHARE |
Programme of Community aid to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Poland & Hungary Action for Restructuring the Economy) |
PPS |
Purchasing Power Standards |
R |
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R&D |
Research and Development |
RTA |
Regional trade agreement |
S |
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SAPARD |
Pre-accession agricultural instrument (Special Accession Program for Agriculture And Rural Development) |
T |
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TEN |
Trans-European transport Network |
U |
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UN |
United Nations |
UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
UNPP |
United Nations Population Prospects |
UNWTO |
United Nations World Tourism Organization |
W |
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WDI |
World Development Indicators |
WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
WUTS |
World Unified Territorial System |