Statistical Terms Glossary

A smaller loan which is a part of a larger loan, often one provided for on lending.

A loan that has been on lent.

When the Bank or other lending institution lends money to a national development institution which, in turns, on lends the funds, the cost of the sub loan is determined by the interest rate and other charges levied by the national development institution and by the foreign exchange costs.

Defined as non-agglomerating coals with a gross calorific value between 4 165 kcal/kg (17.4 GJ/t) and 5 700 kcal/kg (23.9 GJ/t).

See: Outsourcing

A person or firm being contracted by a main contractor or employer to carry out work or deliver services, labour or materials as part of a larger project.

Refers to the splitting up of land into usable or buildable plots. Includes partition of land for the purpose of selling or planning.

A person to whom the holder delegates the authority to sub-manage a sub-holding.

A part of a holding managed by a particular person in the household.

Cable designed to be placed underwater. Such cables must be specially protected against moisture. At shallow depths on continental shelves, submarine cables commonly are plowed in and armored to protect them against ship anchors, trawler nets, and sharks, which are attracted to the electromagnetic fields and like to gnaw on the cables and repeaters.

A steep-sided, V-profile trench or valley winding along the continental shelf or continental slope, having tributaries and resembling unglaciated, river-cut land canyons.

In information technology, a neural network is a system of programs and data structures that approximates the operation of the human brain. A neural network usually involves a large number of processors operating in parallel, each with its own small sphere of knowledge and access to data in its local memory. Typically, a neural network is initially "trained" or fed large amounts of data and rules about data relationships (for example, "A grandfather is older than a person's father"). A program can then tell the network how to behave in response to an external stimulus (for example, to input from a computer user who is interacting with the network) or can initiate activity on its own (within the limits of its access to the external world).

Subordinated debt (sometimes called mezzanine finance) has many of the characteristics of both debt and equity. A subordinated creditor agrees to rank after senior creditors but before ordinary shareholders in a liquidation. For regulatory purposes certain forms of subordinated debt issued by financial institutions may be treated, like equity, as “primary capital.”

See junior debt.

Lender holding a subordinated loan.

A loan where repayment is made subject to other conditions being met, normally repayment of other loans which are deemed to be "senior" (often because they are secured).

The policy of Paris Club creditors is that loans extended after the cutoff date are not subject to rescheduling; therefore, pre-cutoff date loans are effectively subordinated to post-cutoff loans.

Composante d'un système de téléphonie mobile de type GSM ayant pour fonction d'identifier un abonné

The same as right.

Are used in the compilation of construction price indices involve the use of samples of either actually completed, or fictitious construction projects. They entail the collection of prices effectively charged (or what would be charged) by the builder and incorporate changes in productivity and profit margins.

A Subsidiary is a company controlled by another company. Control occurs when the controlling company owns more than 50 per cent of the common shares. When the parent owns 100 per cent of the common shares, the subsidiary is said to be wholly-owned. When the subsidiary operates in a different country, it is called a foreign subsidiary. The controlling company is called a holding company or parent. A subsidiary is a corporation with its own charter and is not a division of the controlling company.