Statistical Terms Glossary

A set of tools for data to be recorded, stored, shared, and accessed via electronic means as opposed to using paper-based records.

Is the sale or purchase of goods or services, whether between businesses, households, individuals, governments, and other public or private organisations, conducted over computer-mediated networks. The goods and services are ordered over those networks, but the payment and the ultimate delivery of the good or service may be conducted on or off-line.

Western industrial society is dependent upon complex data processing and telecommunications systems. Damage to, or interference with, any of these systems can lead to catastrophic consequences

The lowest level of aggregation for which value data are available and used in the calculation of the producer price index (PPI). Elementary aggregates consist of relatively homogeneous sets of goods or services. Their values are used as weights when averaging the elementary price indices associated with them to obtain indices for higher-level aggregates. They may also serve as strata from which the products selected for pricing are sampled.

Is a price index for an elementary aggregate. As such, it is calculated from individual price observations without using weights. More generally, the term can be used to describe any price index that is calculated without weights.

In the context of the Paris Club, debt that can be rescheduled—namely, debt that is contracted before the cutoff date, with maturities of one year or longer.

See Electronic mail

Process, strategy and myriad efforts by which women have been striving to liberate themselves from the authority and control of men and traditional power structures, as well as to secure equal rights for women, remove gender discrimination from laws, institutions and behavioural patterns, and set legal standards that shall promote their full equality with men.

See Eco-management and auditing scheme

See Technical change, embodied

Methods of contraception that can be used to prevent pregnancy in the first few days after intercourse.

World Bank loan for emergency reconstruction after natural disaster.

A mutual fund with capitalization of $50 million from institutional investors in the U.S., Europe and Asia that will invest in securities of companies listed on Third World stock exchanges. It is a closed-end investment company. It is being sponsored by IFC and was launched in 1986.

Fondo para inversiones end mercados Inciplentes Fund set up by IFC in the form of a closed-end Investment company to encourage large Japanese institutional investors to invest in developing countries.

See European Monetary Institute (EMI)

The number of migrants who leave their origins per 1,000 residents of that origin in a given year.

Provides all the services offered in the current business portals (MyDPA, e-MIRSAL, e-ATA and MyJAFZA) with a single User Id and Password through a common interface

Emission is the discharge of pollutants into the atmosphere from stationary sources such as smokestacks, other vents, surface areas of commercial or industrial facilities and mobile sources, for example, motor vehicles, locomotives and aircraft

Emission damage refers to the effects of (air) pollution on buildings, monuments, organisms and ecosystems

The emission factor is the ratio between the amount of pollution generated and the amount of a given raw material processed. The term may also refer to the ratio between the emissions generated and the outputs of production processes

An emission inventory is a listing, by source, of the amounts of pollutants actually or potentially discharged. Such an inventory is used to establish and put forth emission standards

An emission standard is the maximum amount of polluting discharge legally allowed from a single source, mobile or stationary