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African Action Plan
Assigned Amount Units
OECD Development Centre Asian Business Cycle Indicators
American Council on Education
Australian Council for Educational Research
Arbitration of Company Law Disputes
Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Association of Commonwealth Universities
Asian Development Bank
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Acute Exposure Guideline Levels
African Enterprise Network
Activities of Foreign Affiliates
Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries (now Trade and Agriculture Directorate)
Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes
Annex I Expert Group on the UNFCCC, now called Climate Change Expert Group
Agricultural Knowledge Systems
Agricultural Market Access Database
OECD Annual Meeting of Sustainable Development Experts
Analytical Business Enterprise Research and Development database
Agricultural Policies and Development Indicators for Africa
Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation
Association of South-East Asian Nations
African Union
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada
African Development Bank
Business-to-Business
Business-to-Consumer
Baltic Free-Trade Agreement
Business Expenditure on Research and Development
Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD
Brazil, Russia, India and China
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa
Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China and South Africa
Basic Science and Technology Statistics (now Research and Development Statistics)
Consumer to Consumer
Chemical Accident Risk Assessment Thesaurus (database)
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Convention on Biological Diversity
Council of Baltic Sea States
Common-Cause-Failure (
Climate Change Expert Group on the UNFCCC
Centre for Documentation and Information
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
North American Commision for Environment Co-operation
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Central and Eastern European Countries
Central European Free-Trade Agreement
Centre for Effective Learning Environments
Central African Economic Community and Monetary Union (Cameroon, Centrafrica, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon)
European Centre for Higher Education (Unesco)
Certified Emission Reductions
Centre for Educational Reasearch and Innovation
Computable General Equilibrium (model)
Chemicals Committee
International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (see CELE - Programme on Educational Building)
Committee for Industry and Business Environment
Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel
Committee on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises (now Investment Committee)
Commercial Interest Reference Rates
Commonwealth of Independent States
Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
Committee on Financial Markets
Committee on Capital Movements and Invisible Transactions (now Investment Committee)
Compressed Natural Gas
Council of Europe
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
Committee on Public Affairs and Communications
DAC Network on Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation
OECD's Central Purchasing Group
Conference of University Presidents
Co-operative Research Programme: Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development
Consumer Support Estimate (indicator used as of 1999 at the OECD)
Consumer Subsidy Equivalent (indicator used until 1998 at the OECD)
Civil Society Organisation
Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy
Centre for Tax Policy and Administration
Development Assistance Committee
Dynamic Asian Economies
Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs
Development Co-operation Directorate
Doha Development Agenda
DAC Evaluation Resource Centre
Dynamic Integrated Climate Economy (model)
Database on Immigrants in OECD countries
Dynamic Non-Member Economies (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Hong Kong - China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Chinese Taipei and Thailand)
Domain Name System
Digital Subscriber Line
East African Community
East African Enterprise Network
Environmental Action Programme
Electronic Commerce Business Impacts Project
European Commission
Early Childhood Education and Care
Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees (Export Credit Group)
Trade Directorate (now TAD for Trade and Agriculture Directorate)
Managing the economy locally in West Africa (launched jointly by the Sahel and West Africa Club and the Municipal Development Partnership (MDP)
Economic Community of West African States
European Credit Transfer System
Electronic Commerce Tax Study Group
Electronic Data Interchange
Economic and Development Review Committee
OECD's Special Activity on Endocrine Disrupters Testing and Assessment
European Economic Area (EU + Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway)
European Environmental Bureau
Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
European Free Trade Association (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland)
OECD's Environment, Health and Safety Division
Education International
Environmental Impact Assessment
Entrepreneurship Indicators Programme
Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs
Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee
Emerging Market Economy Forum
Environmental Management System
Environment and School Initiative
The Network on Environment and Development Co-operation
Economic Policy Committee
OECD Environment Policy Committee
Environmental Performance Reviews
Environmental Policy and Technological Innovation
Emission Reduction Units
European Social Fund
Environmentally Sound Management of Waste
Emerging and Transition Economies
European Trade Union Committee for Education
European Union
European University Association
Statistical Office of the European Communities
Forum for Asian Insolvency Reform
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Foreign Affiliates Trading Services (database)
Forum for Enterprise Development
Financial Stability Forum
Fragile States Group (now INCAF)
Former Soviet Union
Full Time Equivalent
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
The Group of Ten is made up of eleven industrial countries (Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States) which consult and co-operate on economic, monetary and financial matters.
The Group of Twenty finance ministers and central bank governors of 19 countries (Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America). The European Union, who is represented by the rotating Council presidency and the European Central Bank, is the 20th member of the G-20.
Group of eight leading industrialized countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom, United States and observer status of the European Union)
Gobal Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce
Group on Economic and Environmental Policy Integration
Group on Environmental Performance
OECD Global Forum on Competition
Global Forum on Environment (formerly known as Global Forum on Sustainable Development)
OECD Global Forum on International Investment
OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development, now called Global Forum on Environment (GFENV)
Greenhouse Gases
Globally Harmonised Classification System for Chemicals
The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base
Global Information Infrastructure
Globalisation and Linguistic Competencies
Genetically Modified Organisms
Gross National Income
Gross National Product
Directorate for Public Governance and Territorial Development
DAC Network on Good Governance and Capacity Development
General Equilibrium Environmental Model
Processus de Heiligendamm L'Aquila
Human Biobanks and Genetic Research Databases
Health Care Quality Indicators
Human Development Index
Heiligendamm Dialogue Process (now called Heiligendamm L'Aquila Process)
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Higher Education Institution
Highly Indebted Poor Countries
Engaging with High Net Worth Individuals on Tax Compliance
Human Poverty Index
High Production Volume (Chemicals)
Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System
Harmonized Sales Tax
International Anti-Corruption Conference
International Atomic Energy Agency
International Adult Literacy Survey
Inter-Agency Network for Safety on Biotechnology
Intra-African Trade
International Association of Universities
Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy
Internal Co-operation Group for Biotechnology
International Classification for Health Accounts
Information and Communication Technologies
International Development Goal
International Development Statistics
International Emissions Trading
Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety
Investment, Finance and Enterprise Development
International Futures Programme
Intergovernmental Organizations
Innovation, Higher Education and Research for Development
Indicators of Industry and Services
Individual Learning Account
International Labour Organization
OECD Programme on Institutional Management in Higher Education
International Network on Conflict and Fragility
OECD Indicators of National Education Systems
International Network of Pensions Regulators and Supervisors
Statistics on Intra-Community Trade
Inter-American Organization for Higher Education
International Organization for Migration
International Organisation for Pension Surpervisors
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International Programme on Chemical Safety
International Road Traffic and Accident Database
International Standards of Accounting and Reporting
Revised International Standard Classification of Education
International Standard Classification of Education
International Sectoral DataBase
(It has been discontinued from 2000 and has now been integrated into the STAN database.)
International Standard Industrial Classification
International Organization for Standardization
International Social Security Association
International Survey of Upper Secondary Schools
Information Technologies
Individual Travel Behaviour
International Trade by Commodities Statistics (database)
International Tax Dialogue
International Transport Research Documentation (database)
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
South East Europe Compact for Reform, Investment, Integrity and Growth
Joint Working Group
Joint Working Party on Agriculture and Environment
Latin America Free Trade Association
Least Developed Countries
Local Economic and Employment Development
Latin American Economic Outlook
Language, literacy and numeracy
Living Modified Organisms
OECD Labour/Management Programme
Long-Range Transport Potential
Multilateral Agreement on Investment
Municipal Development Programme
Multilateral Environmental Agreement
Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey
Most-Favoured Nation
Multi-Factor Productivity
Multinational Enterprises
Market Price Support
Mutual Review of Development Effectiveness
Measurement, Reporting and Verification of greenhouse gas mitigation
Monthly Statistics of International Trade (database)
Main Science and Technology Indicators
Nominal Assistance Coefficient
Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community
North American Free Trade Agreement
Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment
National Action Plans on Employment
Non-Accelerating Wage Rate of Unemployment
Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories
National Contact Point
National Environmental Action Programmes
New and Emerging Health-Related Technologies
Non Member Economies and International Migration Division
New Partnership for Africa's Development
National Economic Research Organisations
National Experts on Science and Technology Indicators
Non-Governmental Organisations
National Information Infrastructure
Newly Independent States
Nominal Protection Coefficient
Nuclear Power Plant
National Statistical Offices
Non-Tariff Barriers
Official Development Assistance
Official Development Finance
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Offshore Financial Centers
OECD Online Information Services
Other OECD
Other Official Flows
Public Affairs and Communications Directorate
African Countries with Portuguese as the Official Language (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, São Tomé and Príncipe)
Pesticide Action Network
Working Group on Participatory Development and Good Governance
Partnership for Democratic Governance
OECD Programme on Educational Building (now called CELE)
Public Employment Service
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Public (or Private) Finance Initiative
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies
OECD Programme for International Student Assessment
Post-Occupancy Evaluation
DAC Network on Poverty Reduction
Public/Private Partnership
Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers
Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
Producer Support Estimate (indicator used as of 1999 at the OECD)
Producer Subsidy Equivalent (indicator used until 1998 at the OECD)
Public Sector Pay and Employment
Private Sector Development Support Programme
OECD (Quantitative) Structure-Activity Relationships
Quality Assurance
Assistant de requête pour les Statistiques sur le développement international
Research and Development
Research and Development Statistics (formerly Basic Science and Technology Statistics)
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (and Forest Degradation)
Regulatory Environmental Programme Implementation Network
Radio Frequency Identification
Regulatory Governance Initiative
West African Network of Farmers' Organisations and Agricultural Producers
Rest of the world
OECD Road Transport and Intermodal Linkages Research Programme
South America Investment, Finance and Enterprise Development Programme
Southern African Development Community (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe)
South African Enterprise Network
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange
Socio-Economic Analysis
South Eastern Europe
South East Europe Forum for Enterprise Development
South Eastern European Partnership on Accountancy Development
Students with Disabilities, Difficulties, Disadvantages
Steering Group on Corporate Governance
General Secretariat of the OECD
Second International Adult Literacy Survey
SIDS (Screening Information Data Set) Initial Assessment Meeting
SIDS (Screening Information Data Set) Initial Assessment Report
Screening Information Data Set
The OECD Social Institutions and Gender Index
Support for Improvement in Governance and Management - a joint initiative of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), principally financed by the EU
System of Information on Resources and the Environment
Standard International Trade Classification
Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
Sustainable Materials Management
System of National Accounts Migration
OECD Social Expenditure Database
Sub-Saharan Africa
Structural Statistics for Industry and Services
State Trading Enterprises
OECD Short-Term Economic Statistics Expert Group
Directorate for Science, Technologie and Industry
Services Trade Restrictiveness Index
Standardised Unemployment Rates (now called Harmonised Unemployment Rates)
Statistical Working Party of the OECD Industry Committee
Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
seasonally adjusted
Trade and Agriculture Directorate
Technical and Further Education
Technical Advisory Group
OECD Teaching and Learning International Survey
WTO/OECD Trade Capacity Building Database
Territorial Development Policy Committee
Territorial Development Service
Teacher Education for Diversity
Transition Economies Forum Enterprise Development
Transition Economies Programme
Total Factor Productivity
Tax Information Exchange Agreements
Working Group on Innovation and Technology Policy
Targeting Investment Promotion Activities in the Western Balkans
Working Party on Telecommunication and Information Services Policy
Transboundary Movements of Wastes
Tradeable or Transferable Permits
Trade-Related Technical Assistance and Capacity Building
Total Support Estimate
Territorial Statistics and Indicators
International Union of Architects
United Nations Economic and Social Council
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations Children's Fund
United Nations Statistical Division
Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture
Underground Research Laboratories
United States Dollars
Value Added Tax
Valuation of Environment-Related Health Impacts
Vocational Education and Training
Vocational and Technical Education
West Africa Economic and Monetary Union (Benin, Burkina-Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo)
West African Enterprise Network
West Africa Long Term Perspective Study
World Bank
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Working Group on Environmental Information Outlooks
Working Group on Waste Prevention and Recycling
World Health Organization
Weapons of Mass Destruction
Working Group of National Co-ordinators of the Test Guidelines Programme
Working Party on Biotechnology
Working Party on Economic and Environmental Policy Integration
Working Party on Environmental Performance
Working Party on Global and Structural Policies
Working Party on the Information Economy
Working Party on Information Security and Privacy
Working Party on Migration
Working Party on National Environmental Policies
Working Party on Private Pensions
Working Party on Pollution Prevention and Control
Working Party on Social Policy
Working Party on International Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Statistics
World Summit on Sustainable Development
World Trade Organization
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