Statistical Terms Glossary

Banks' business, often fee-based, that does not generally involve booking assets and taking deposits e.g. swaps, options, letters of credit.

Is water withdrawn or diverted from a groundwater or surface—water source for public water supply, industry, irrigation, livestock, thermoelectric power generation or other uses.

See third market.

A non-standard issue of a security, often other than the current issue.

The person or other party, who is subjected to the act of violence.

The prices that sellers display as the prices at which they are prepared to sell their products. The prices of products as quoted in the seller’s price list, catalogue, internet site, advertisements, etc. They are not necessarily transaction prices. Depending on the country and/or the product, they may or may not include delivery and installation costs, VAT and other indirect taxes on products, discounts, surcharges and rebates, invoiced service charges and voluntary gratuities.

Same as prospectus.

Is what measures the quantity of soil erosion sediments delivered to off-farm areas as a result of agricultural soil erosion.

Flows which meet conditions of eligibility for inclusion in Official Development Assistance (ODA), other than the fact that the recipients are on Part II of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) List of Aid Recipients.

OECD official bilateral loans statistics shows the outstanding debt on loans, other than direct export credits, extended by governments which are members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Direct export credits extended by the official sector are included in non-bank trade credits. In addition to straightforward loans, official bilateral loans include loans repayable in kind, and eligible loans in Associated Financing packages

An IMF category of countries, covering those countries which borrow from development institutions as opposed to those borrowing from the normal capital markets (market borrowers).

Official creditors are international organisations, governments and government agencies including official monetary institutions

Official debt is debt owed to a bilateral government agency or a multilateral development agency. As well as debt arising from official development assistance (ODA) and other official flows (OOFs), it includes former private sector debt that has been rescheduled by the official sector

Flows of official financing administered with the promotion of the economic development and welfare of developing countries as the main objective, and which are concessional in character with a grant element of at least 25 percent (using a fixed 10 percent rate of discount). By convention, ODA flows comprise contributions of donor government agencies, at all levels, to developing countries (“bilateral ODA”) and to multilateral institutions. ODA receipts comprise disbursements by bilateral donors and multilateral institutions. Lending by export credit agencies—with the pure purpose of export promotion—is excluded.

Grants or Loans to countries and territories on Part I of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) List of Aid Recipients (developing countries) which are:
(a) undertaken by the official sector;
(b) with promotion of economic development and welfare as the main objective;
(c) at concessional financial terms [if a loan, having a Grant Element of at least 25 per cent].

A non-monetary financial intermediary controlled by the public sector. It primarily engages in making long-term loans that are beyond the capacity or willingness of other financial institutions.

Used in measuring the inflow of resources to recipient countries: includes (a) bilateral official development assistance (ODA),
(b) grants and concessional and non concessional development lending by multilateral financial institutions, and
(c) Other Official Flows for development purposes (including refinancing Loans) which have too low a Grant Element to qualify as ODA.

See Exchange rates

See Reserve assets

Loans or credits to finance the export of goods and services for which an official export credit agency in the creditor country provides guarantees, insurance, or direct financing. The financing element—as opposed to the guarantee/insurance element—can be extended by an exporter (supplier’s credit), or through a commercial bank in the form of trade related credit provided either to the supplier, or to the importer (buyer’s credit).

Refers to financial operations transacted outside the country in question.

The practice of farming fish further out to sea that is usual for traditional aquaculture. In the United States, this means farming where state jurisdiction is from 3 miles out to 200 miles where the Exclusive Economic Zone ends

Bank located outside the country in question.

Financial center where many of the financial institutions have little connection with that country's financial system, usually for taxation purposes. Examples are the Cayman Islands, where many of the corporations are engaged in business in the U.S. and Europe, and London, where many of the financial institutions are engaged in Eurodollar trading.

Offshore banking centres is an expression used to describe countries with banking sectors dealing primarily with non-residents and/or in foreign currency on a scale out of proportion to the size of the host economy

Department within a bank that, in certain countries (e.g., Bahrain), is permitted to engage in specific transactions (usually Euromarket business) that ordinary domestic banks are not allowed to do.