Statistical Terms Glossary

Interest and other expenses incurred by an entity in connection with the borrowing of funds.

See depositor rate of Interest.

Security loan where one or more securities are posted as collateral for the borrowed security.

The toolkit draws on existing resources, identifies relevant local and international stakeholders, and takes into consideration the specific constraints of developing economies. The toolkit seeks to raise awareness among Member States of the growing threats posed by botnets and the linkage with criminal activities and incorporates policy, technical and social aspects of mitigating the effects of botnets.

Fishing using any gear type likely to come in contact with the seafloor or benthic organisms during the normal course of operations.

The net result or net profit after all expenses.

Operation of a trawl net designed for use on or near the bottom e.g. otter trawl, beam trawl.

Bond issue where a group of investment banks agree to purchase an entire issue for their own account or for resale, prior to announcing the issue to the market.

The fluctuation or oscillation of prices up and down in a persistent pattern.

Bovine somatotropin (BST) is a naturally occurring hormone that stimulates milk production.

The vertical distance at the forward perpendicular between the waterline corresponding to the maximum permissible draught and the designed trim and the top of the exposed deck at side.

Category of domestic support.
— Green box: supports considered not to distort trade and therefore permitted with no limits.
— Blue box: permitted supports linked to production, but subject to production limits and therefore minimally trade-distorting.
— Amber box: supports considered to distort trade and therefore subject to reduction commitments.

See: Balance of Payments Manual, Fifth Edition

Water in which the salinity is appreciable but not to a constant high level. It is usually characterized by regular daily and seasonal fluctuations in salinity due to freshwater and full strength marine water influxes.; Water with a salinity between seawater and freshwater, usually showing wide salinity fluctuations.

Brady bonds comprise commercial bank debt restructured under the Brady Plan. The Brady Plan was introduced in early 1989 and offers a comprehensive debt restructuring package for commercial bank debt. Under the plan commercial lenders/creditors can chose from a menu of instruments including buybacks, discount exchanges for debt stock reduction, and par exchanges at reduced interest rates for debt service reduction

It is a system of dots - representing alphabets, punctuation and other symbols - that would enable persons with visual impairment to read and to write. 

The emigration of a significant proportion of a country’s highly skilled, highly educated professional population, usually to other countries offering better economic and social opportunity (for example, physicians leaving a developing country to practice medicine in a developed country).