Monday 7 October 2013

Abbreviations and what they stand for

LDCs - Least Developed Countries
LLDCs - Land Locked Developing Countries
SIDS- Small Island Developing States
NICs - Newly Industrialising Countries
LICs - Low Income Countries
TNCs - Trans-National Cooperations
GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
WTO - World Trade Organisation
IMF - International Monetary Fund
IDA - International Development Association
TSMC - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
MDGs - Millennium Development Goals
SAPs - Structural Adjustment Packages
HIPC programme - Heavily Indebted Poor Countries programme
MDRI - Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative


If you want to test your knowledge on these, check out the quiz I made on sporcle:
http://www.sporcle.com/games/georevision/development-abbreviations-eg-ldc

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