| A |
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| ASEAN |
Association of SouthEast Asian Nations (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) |
| ASEAN+3 |
Association of SouthEast Asian Nations plus China, Japan and South Korea |
| C |
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| CAP |
Common Agriculture Policy |
| CEEC |
Central and Eastern European Countries |
| CEPII |
Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Information Internationales |
| CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
| COMECON |
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance |
| CU |
Co-ordination Unit |
| D |
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| DAC |
Development Aid Committee |
| E |
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| EFTA |
European Free Trade Association |
| EIB |
European Investment Bank |
| ENP |
European Neighbourhood Policy |
| EPO |
European Patent Office |
| ESDP |
European Spatial Development Perspective |
| ESPON |
European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion |
| EU |
European Union |
| EU25 |
European Union with 25 members |
| EU27 |
European Union with 27 Members |
| EU27 + 2 |
European Union with 27 Members plus Switzerland and Norway |
| EU27 + 8 |
European Union with 27 Members plus Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, Norway, Switzerland, Turkey |
| F |
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| FDI |
Foreign Direct Investments |
| FUA |
Functional Urban Area |
| G |
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| GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
| GDP (ppp) |
Gross Domestic Product purchasing power parity. |
| GIS |
Geographic Information System |
| H |
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| HDI |
Human Development Indicators |
| HDR |
Human Development Report |
| I |
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| ICAO |
International Civil Aviation Organization |
| ICT |
Information and Communications Technology |
| IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
| INTERREG |
Community initiative which aims to stimulate interregional cooperation |
| IS |
Information Society |
| ISPA |
Instrument for Structural Policy for Pre-Accession |
| K |
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| KTEN |
Know Trans-European Networks model |
| L |
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| LAU |
Local Administrative Units |
| M |
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| MASST |
Macroeconomic, Sectoral, Social and Territorial model |
| MAUP |
Modifiable Areas Unit Problem |
| MC |
Monitoring Committee |
| MEGA |
Metropolitan European Growth Areas |
| MERCOSUR |
Southern Common Market (Mercado Común del Sur) (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela) |
| MERCOSUR+5 |
Southern Common Market plus Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru |
| N |
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| NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement (Canada, United States, Mexico) |
| NGO |
Non Governmental Organisation |
| NIS |
Newly Independent States |
| NMS |
New Member States |
| NUTS |
Nomenclature d’Unités Territoriales Statistiques (nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) |
| O |
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| OECD |
Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development |
| P |
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| PC-TAS |
Personal Computer Trade Analysis System |
| PHARE |
Programme of Community aid to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Poland & Hungary Action for Restructuring the Economy) |
| PPS |
Purchasing Power Standards |
| R |
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| R&D |
Research and Development |
| RTA |
Regional trade agreement |
| S |
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| SAPARD |
Pre-accession agricultural instrument (Special Accession Program for Agriculture And Rural Development) |
| T |
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| TEN |
Trans-European transport Network |
| U |
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| UN |
United Nations |
| UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| UNPP |
United Nations Population Prospects |
| UNWTO |
United Nations World Tourism Organization |
| W |
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| WDI |
World Development Indicators |
| WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
| WUTS |
World Unified Territorial System |