Statistical Terms Glossary

The pressure energy necessary at the distribution water system entrance to overcome losses and operate various irrigation equipment/emitters at the designed pressure.

It is made of textile, wool, or hair. It is typically used in the Bedouin Localities.

Tenure refers to the arrangements under which the household occupies all or part of a housing unit. The unit of enumeration is a household occupying a housing unit.

A word or phrase used to designate a concept.

Medium- or long-term loan undertaken by a corporation when it cannot or does not want to issue a loan on the financial market.

List of terms and conditions for a loan.

The use of funds from short-term deposits to make long-term loans.

Costs incurred to prevent environmental problems when production ceases (decommissioning of nuclear power plants, final storage of nuclear waste, sealing of landfills …). These costs should be anticipated during the production periods prior to closure and provision made for them to be met during the life of the asset.

Total of terminating and transfer passengers.

Passengers starting or ending their trip at the designated airport.

See Winding up

Fees that wireless telephone companies pay to complete calls on wireline phone networks or vice versa.

1. There is a technology available suitably called the terminator technology, which is designed to genetically switch off a plant's ability to germinate a second time.; 2. Plants that are genetically engineered to produce sterile seeds. If commercialized, the technology will prevent farmers from saving seed from their harvest for planting the following season. These "suicide seeds" will force farmers to return to the seed corporations every year and will make extinct the 12,000-year tradition of farmers saving, adapting and exchanging seed in order to advance biodiversity and increase food security.

Description de la mission confide à un comité ou à un autre groupe, précisant notamment les objectifs des travaux à exécuter et délimitant les sujets qui seront abordés.

Paris Club rescheduling involving only a small number of creditors. Typically this does not require a rescheduling meeting between the debtor country and its creditors, with the agreement being reached through an exchange of letters.

The terms of repayment [of aid] may be the following: Equal principal payments (EPP) - denotes a fixed schedule of equal instalments of principal adding up to the face value of the loan. Interest is charged on outstanding principal and the amount of individual service payments decreases with each payment of principal. In the annuity method, each service payment is established as an equal amount, within which the interest component declines with time while the principal component increases. Lump sum means the loan is repaid in a single amount (principal and interest) at maturity. If interest is paid at various earlier dates, then the repayment schedule is a particular case of equal principal payments and is reported under that category.

Terms of trade is the ratio of export and import prices

Refers to step-like surface that breaks the continuity of a slope.

As defined by the Law of the Sea Convention. The area of the sea up to 12 nautical miles in extent where generally full sovereignty of the coastal state apply, subject to a right of innocent passage.

A group of different actors that carry out convergent actions around a territorial development dynamic.