Statistical Terms Glossary

Securitisation is the process of issuing new negotiable securities backed by existing assets such as loans, mortgages, credit card debt, or other assets (including accounts receivable)

1. Issue of securities in exchange for debt. The Bank has used it to specifically refer to "the packaging and selling of a pool of creditor risks in the form of a security". The tendency on financial markets to make greater use of securities, i.e. firms issue securities rather than borrow directly from banks.

Sale of loans by pooling together a group of loans (or other forms of receivables) and issuing securities backed by an interest in this pool of loans. The creditworthiness of the pool is enhanced through the provision of partial guarantees and/or over-collateralization.

1. Document giving title to property or claim on income.
2. Income-yielding paper traded on the stock exchange and secondary market.

Lending of securities which the IBRD owns (typically cally a U.S. Government obligation) against receipt of cash or similar securities as collateral in amounts equal to or higher than the market value of the security lent.

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Slow moving and staying in the same vicinity for long periods.

Refers to livestock raised by holders who have a permanent residence.

Is material of varying size, both mineral and organic that is being, or has been, moved from its site of origin by the action of wind, water, gravity, or ice, and comes to rest elsewhere on the earth’s surface.

(Sedimentation) Deposits of minerals and fine soil particles collected by fast-flowing water (erosion and abrasion) that settle in areas of low turbulence in rivers and lakes.

Settling of solid particles in a liquid system due to gravity.

See System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting.

Prices per physical quantity obtained by dividing the monetary flow by the physical quantity.

Is a securities offering whereby one or more parties that have some connection to a new enterprise invest the funds necessary to start the business so that it has enough funds to sustain itself for a period of development until it reaches either a state where it is able to continue funding itself, or has created something in value so that it is worthy of future rounds of funding. Seed money refers to the money so invested.