Statistical Terms Glossary

A program to assist those borrowers making a determined effort to undertake the difficult measures needed to sustain development despite adverse external circumstances. It includes acceleration of disbursements, substituting higher priority operations that support structural adjustment and policy change for lower priority, slower disbursing operations, expansion of advisory services in the design and implementation of appropriate policies and urging other lenders to make similar efforts.

Program set up by Bank at the end of 1987 to provide quick-disbursing adjustment lending to the poorest Sub-Sahran African countries.

The World Conservation Strategy is a strategy published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) (currently the World Conservation Union), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in 1980 with the objectives of:
(a) maintaining essential ecological processes and life support systems,
(b) preserving genetic diversity, and
(c) ensuring the sustainable utilization of species and ecosystems.
An updated version entitled Caring for the Earth: A Strategy for Sustainable Living (IUCN/WWF, 1991) was published in 1991

See IUCN.

World Customs Organization, a multilateral body located in Brussels through which participating countries seek to simplify and rationalize customs procedures.

Are constructed by aggregating measures of the volume of exports (imports) of individual countries on a constant price basis.

See National Estate.

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations. WIPO was created in 1967 "to encourage creative activity, to promote the protection of intellectual property throughout the world.

See Reference (border) price.

Was a pair of United Nations-sponsored conferences about information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. One of its chief aims was to bridge the so-called global digital divide separating rich countries from poor countries by spreading access to the Internet in the developing world. The conferences established 17 May as World Information Society Day.

Growth of world trade is calculated as the arithmetic mean of the growth of world import volumes and world export volumes

The World Trade Organisation (WTO) is the successor body to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), established formally on 1 January 1995 as part of the final agreement of the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations. Its main objectives include: (i) to administer trade agreements; (ii) to act as a forum for trade negotiations; (iii) to settle trade disputes; (iv) to review national trade policies; and (v) to assist developing countries in trade policy issues

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an international organization designed by its founders to supervise and liberalize international capital trade. The organization officially commenced on January 1, 1995 under the Marrakech Agreement, replacing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), which commenced in 1947. The World Trade Organization deals with regulation of trade between participating countries; it provides a framework for negotiating and formalising trade agreements, and a dispute resolution process aimed at enforcing participants' adherence to WTO agreements which are signed by representatives of member governments and ratified by their parliaments.[4][5] Most of the issues that the WTO focuses on derive from previous trade negotiations, especially from the Uruguay Round (1986-1994).

The World Wide Fund for Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund (WWF)) aims to conserve nature and ecological processes by preserving biodiversity, ensuring sustainable use of natural resources and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful use of resources and energy

Is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or W3). Founded and headed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee,[2] the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the World Wide Web. As of 8 September 2009, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has 356 members.[1] W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

Is a telecommunications technology that provides wireless transmission of data using a variety of transmission modes, from point-to-multipoint links to portable and fully mobile internet access. The technology provides up to 10 Mbit/s [1] broadband speed without the need for cables. The technology is based on the IEEE 802.16 standard (also called Broadband Wireless Access). The name "WiMAX" was created by the WiMAX Forum, which was formed in June 2001 to promote conformity and interoperability of the standard. The forum describes WiMAX[2] as "a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to cable and DSL".

Sell a swap.

When an asset or a portion of an asset is recognized as worthless, it is removed from the books of a corporation and a corresponding loss in the corporation's capital is recognized.

A financial claim that a creditor regards as unrecoverable and so no longer carries on its books.