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| Abbreviation |
Description |
| % yoy |
% year-on-year |
| AD |
Andorra |
| AE |
United Arab Emirates |
| AF |
Afghanistan |
| AG |
Antigua and Barbuda |
| AI |
Anguilla |
| AL |
Albania |
| AM |
Armenia |
| AMEX |
American Stock Exchange |
| AN |
Netherlands Antilles |
| ann |
annualised |
| AO |
Angola |
| aop |
average of period |
| APEC |
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| AQ |
Antarctica |
| AR |
Argentina |
| AS |
American Samoa |
| ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| AT |
Austria |
| AU |
Australia |
| AW |
Aruba |
| AZ |
Azerbaijan |
| BA |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| bal. |
balance |
| BB |
Barbados |
| bbl |
barrels |
| BD |
Bangladesh |
| BE |
Belgium |
| BF |
Burkina Faso |
| BG |
Bulgaria |
| BH |
Bahrain |
| BI |
Burundi |
| BIS |
Bank for International Settlements |
| BJ |
Benin |
| BM |
Bermuda |
| BN |
Brunei Darussalam |
| BO |
Bolivia |
| bp |
basis points |
| BR |
Brazil |
| BS |
Bahamas |
| BT |
Bhutan |
| BV |
Bouvet Island |
| BW |
Botswana |
| BY |
Belarus |
| BZ |
Belize |
| B2B |
business-to-business |
| B2C |
business-to-consumer |
| B2E |
business-to-employee |
| CA |
Canada |
| CC |
Australian Oceania |
| CD |
Congo, Dem. Rep. |
| CEECs, CEE countries |
Central and Eastern European countries |
| CF |
Central African Republic |
| CG |
Congo, Republic |
| CH |
Switzerland |
| CI |
Cote d'Ivoire |
| CK |
NZ Oceania (Cook Islands) |
| CL |
Chile |
| CM |
Cameroon |
| CN |
China |
| CO |
Colombia |
| CPI |
Consumer price index |
| CR |
Costa Rica |
| CU |
Cuba |
| CV |
Cape Verde |
| CX |
Christmas Island |
| CY |
Cyprus |
| CZ |
Czech Republic |
| DE |
Germany |
| DJ |
Djibouti |
| DK |
Denmark |
| DM |
Dominica |
| DO |
Dominican Republic |
| DZ |
Algeria |
| e |
estimate (i.e. 2005e) |
| EBRD |
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| EC |
Ecuador |
| EC |
European Community |
| ECB |
European Central Bank |
| ECE |
European Commission for Europe |
| ECOFIN-Council |
European Union's Economic and Financial Affairs Council |
| E-Commerce |
Electronic commerce |
| EE |
Estonia |
| EEC |
European Economic Community |
| EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
| EG |
Egypt |
| EH |
Western Sahara |
| EIB |
European Investment Bank |
| EM |
Emerging markets |
| EMBI |
Emerging markets bond index |
| EMS |
European Monetary System |
| EMU |
European (Economic) Monetary Union |
| EMU-S8 |
The smaller members of EMU (Austria, Belgium, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Portugal) |
| EMU4 |
The 4 large EMU member states (France, Germany, Italy and Spain) |
| eop |
end of period |
| EP |
European Parliament |
| ER |
Eritrea |
| ERM |
Exchange Rate Mechanism |
| ES |
Spain |
| ET |
Ethiopia |
| EURATOM |
European Atomic Energy Community |
| Eurax |
European stock index |
| EURCO |
European Composite Unit |
| Eurex |
European Exchange |
| EURIBOR |
Euro interbank offered rate |
| excl. |
excluding |
| f |
forecast (i.e. 2005f) |
| FDI |
Foreign direct investment |
| Fed |
Federal Reserve Bank |
| FI |
Finland |
| FIBOR |
Frankfurt interbank offered rate |
| FJ |
Fiji |
| FK |
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) |
| FM |
Micronesia, Federated States of |
| FO |
Faroe Islands |
| FR |
France |
| FTSE |
Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Share Index |
| FX |
Foreign exchange |
| FY |
fiscal year |
| GA |
Gabon |
| GATS |
General Agreemant on Trade in Services |
| GB |
United Kingdom |
| GD |
Grenada |
| GDP |
Gross domestic product |
| GE |
Georgia |
| GF |
French Guiana |
| GH |
Ghana |
| GI |
Gibraltar |
| GL |
Greenland |
| GM |
Gambia |
| GN |
Guinea |
| GNP |
Gross national product |
| GP |
Guadeloupe |
| GQ |
Equatorial Guinea |
| GR |
Greece |
| GS |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands |
| GT |
Guatemala |
| GU |
Guam |
| GW |
Guinea-Bissau |
| GY |
Guyana |
| HICP |
harmonised index of consumer prices |
| HICP |
heavily indebted poor countries |
| HK |
Hong Kong |
| HM |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands |
| HN |
Honduras |
| HR |
Croatia |
| HT |
Haiti |
| HU |
Hungary |
| H1 2005 |
1st half 2005 |
| IAS |
International Accounting Standards |
| ID |
Indonesia |
| IE |
Ireland |
| IL |
Israel |
| ILO |
International Labour Organisation |
| IM |
Isle of Man |
| IN |
India |
| IO |
British Indian Ocean Territory |
| IPO |
Initial public offering |
| IQ |
Iraq |
| IR |
Iran |
| IS |
Iceland |
| IT |
Information technology |
| IT |
Italy |
| JM |
Jamaica |
| JO |
Jordan |
| JP |
Japan |
| KE |
Kenya |
| KG |
Kyrgyzstan |
| KH |
Cambodia |
| KI |
Kiribati |
| KM |
Comoros |
| KN |
St. Kitts and Nevis |
| KP |
Korea, Dem. Rep. |
| KR |
Korea, Rep. |
| KW |
Kuwait |
| KY |
Cayman Islands |
| KZ |
Kazakhstan |
| LA |
Lao PDR |
| LB |
Lebanon |
| lc |
local currency |
| LC |
St. Lucia |
| LDC |
Less developed countries |
| LI |
Liechtenstein |
| LIBOR |
London interbank offered rate |
| LK |
Sri Lanka |
| LR |
Liberia |
| LS |
Lesotho |
| LSE |
London Stock Exchange |
| LT |
Lithuania |
| LU |
Luxembourg |
| LV |
Latvia |
| LY |
Libya |
| MA |
Morocco |
| MC |
Monaco |
| MD |
Moldova |
| ME |
Montenegro |
| MEP |
Member of the European Parliament |
| Mercosur |
Mercado Común del Sur (free trade agreement between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay) |
| MG |
Madagascar |
| MH |
Marshall Islands |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MK |
Macedonia |
| ML |
Mali |
| MM |
Myanmar |
| MN |
Mongolia |
| MO |
Macau |
| mom |
month-on-month |
| MP |
Northern Mariana Islands |
| MQ |
Martinique |
| MR |
Mauritania |
| MS |
Montserrat |
| MT |
Malta |
| MU |
Mauritius |
| MV |
Maldives |
| MW |
Malawi |
| MX |
Mexico |
| MY |
Malaysia |
| MZ |
Mozambique |
| M3 |
Money supply M3 |
| NA |
Namibia |
| NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement (between USA, Canada and Mexico) |
| NASDAQ |
National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations |
| NC |
New Caledonia |
| NCB |
National central bank |
| NE |
Niger |
| NF |
Norfolk Islands |
| NG |
Nigeria |
| NGO |
Non-governmental organisation |
| NI |
Nicaragua |
| NIKKEI |
Japanese stock index |
| NL |
Netherlands |
| NO |
Norway |
| nom |
nominal |
| NP |
Nepal |
| NPO |
Non-profit organisation |
| NR |
Nauru |
| nsa |
non-seasonally adjusted |
| NU |
Niue |
| NYSE |
New York Stock Exchange |
| NZ |
New Zealand |
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OM |
Oman |
| p.a. |
per annum |
| PA |
Panama |
| PAYG |
Pay-as-you-go |
| PE |
Peru |
| PF |
French Polynesia |
| PG |
Papua New Guinea |
| PH |
Philippines |
| PK |
Pakistan |
| PL |
Poland |
| PM |
Prime minister |
| PM |
St. Pierre and Miquelon |
| PN |
Pitcairn |
| pp |
percentage points |
| PPI |
Producer Price Index |
| PPP |
Purchasing Power Parity |
| PR |
Puerto Rico |
| PT |
Portugal |
| PW |
Palau |
| PY |
Paraguay |
| QA |
Qatar |
| qoq |
quarter-on-quarter |
| Q1 2005 |
1st quarter 2005 |
| RE |
Reunion |
| REER |
Real exchange rate |
| RO |
Romania |
| ROE |
return on equity |
| RS |
Serbia |
| RU |
Russia |
| RW |
Rwanda |
| sa |
seasonally adjusted |
| SA |
Saudi Arabia |
| saar |
seasonally adjusted annual rate |
| SB |
Solomon Islands |
| SC |
Seychelles |
| SCM |
Supply chain management |
| SD |
Sudan |
| SE |
Sweden |
| SEC |
Securities and Exchange Commission |
| SG |
Singapore |
| SH |
St. Helena |
| SI |
Slovenia |
| SJ |
Svalbard and Jan Mayen |
| SK |
Slovakia |
| SL |
Sierra Leone |
| SM |
San Marino |
| SN |
Senegal |
| SO |
Somalia |
| S&P |
Standard & Poor's |
| SR |
Suriname |
| ST |
Sao Tome and Principe |
| SV |
El Salvador |
| SY |
Syrian Arab Republic |
| SZ |
Swaziland |
| T-bill |
Treasury bills |
| TC |
Turks and Caicos Islands |
| TD |
Chad |
| TF |
French Southern Territories |
| TG |
Togo |
| TH |
Thailand |
| TJ |
Tajikistan |
| TK |
Tokelau |
| TL |
East Timor |
| TM |
Turkmenistan |
| TN |
Tunisia |
| TO |
Tonga |
| ToT |
Terms of trade |
| tr |
trillion |
| TR |
Turkey |
| TT |
Trinidad and Tobago |
| TV |
Tuvalu |
| TW |
Taiwan |
| TZ |
Tanzania |
| UA |
Ukraine |
| UG |
Uganda |
| UM |
Minor outlying islands (USA) |
| UMTS |
Universal Mobile Telecommunications System |
| UNCITRAL |
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law |
| UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
| UN/ECE |
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe |
| US |
United States |
| UY |
Uruguay |
| UZ |
Uzbekistan |
| VA |
Vatican City State |
| VAT |
Value added tax |
| VC |
St. Vincent and the Gr. |
| VC |
Venture capital |
| VE |
Venezuela |
| VG |
Virgin Islands, British |
| VI |
Virgin Islands, U.S. |
| VN |
Vietnam |
| Vol. |
Volume |
| VU |
Vanuatu |
| WEF |
World Economic Forum |
| WF |
Wallis and Futuna |
| WS |
Samoa (Western) |
| WTO |
World Trade Organization |
| YE |
Yemen |
| yoy |
year-on-year |
| YT |
Mayotte |
| YU |
Yugoslavia (Former Yugosl.) |
| Y2K |
Year 2000 |
| ZA |
South Africa |
| ZM |
Zambia |
| ZW |
Zimbabwe |
| 10Y |
10-year~ |
| 3M |
3-month ~ |
