Statistical Terms Glossary

Shared or Joint monopoly refers to anticompetitive behaviour by firms, normally an oligopoly, in order to secure monopoly profits for the firms as a group. Essentially, shared monopoly requires some form of collusion but stops short of being a formal cartel. It is therefore similar to tacit collusion. In a shared monopoly firms may not compete for the same customers and have instead local monopolies.

Shareholders are the collective owners of a corporation.

See stockholders' equity.

The category shares and other equity (F.5) consists of all transactions in shares and other equity (AF.5) that is financial assets which represent property rights on corporations or quasi-corporations. These financial assets generally entitle the holders to a share in the profits of the corporations or quasi-corporations and to a share in their net assets in the event of liquidation.

Shares and other equities are financial assets that are instruments and records acknowledging, after the claims of all creditors have been met, claims to the residual value of incorporated enterprises

Clause in loan agreement that states that if one participant fails to receive payment, the others will share receipts with the participant(s) not receiving payments.

Refers to the removal and retention of shark fins while the remainder of the living shark is discarded in the ocean.

A system of standing authorization to issue securities given by the U.S. Treasury to certain select borrowers (including the IBRD). Borrowers must normally wait for formal approval.

Farming practice whereby a particular piece of land is cultivated for some years and then abandoned for a period sufficient to restore its fertility by natural vegetative growth before being recultivated.

The growing of crops for a few years on selected and cleared plots alternating with a lengthy period of vegetative fallow when the soil is rested. Cultivation consequently shifts within an area that is otherwise covered by natural vegetation. The intensity of rotation, expressed as R, is less than 33 percent. R is calculated as the years of cultivation multiplied by 100 and divided by the length of the cycle of land utilization. This indicates that less of 33 percent of the area which is available for farming, is under cultivation. In other words, the land is cultivated for less than 33 percent of the year.; A farming practice whereby a particular piece of land is cultivated for some years and then abandoned for a period sufficient to restore its fertility by natural vegetative growth before being re-cultivated.

May be defined as a situation where one wage earner replaces another at the same task within a 24 hour period.

Seagoing self-propelled surface-displacement vessel.

Sea and/or inland waterway self-propelled surface-displacement vessel/boat.

Seagoing self-propelled surface-displacement vessel.

The unloading of cargo from one merchant ship and its loading into another to complete a journey, even where the cargo may have dwell time ashore before its onward journey.

Unit of measurement representing the movement of a ship over one kilometre.