| Abbreviations & Acronyms |  | ||
| ADB | Asian Develoment Bank | |
| AERC | Africa Economic Research Consortium | ||
| APEC | Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation | ||
| CAS | Country assistance strategy | ||
| CEE | Central and Eastern Europe | ||
| CGAP | Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest | ||
| CGIAR | Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research | ||
| CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States | ||
| CODE | Committee on Development Effectiveness | ||
| EA | Environmental assessment | ||
| EAP | East Asia and Pacific region | ||
| ECA | Europe and Central Asia region | ||
| ECLAC | United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean | ||
| ECOWAS | Economic Community of West African States | ||
| EDI | Economic Development Institute | ||
| ESD | Environmentally sustainable development | ||
| ESMAP | Energy Sector Management Assistance Program | ||
| ESSD | Environmentally and socially sustainable development network | ||
| ESW | Economic and sector work | ||
| EU | European Union | ||
| FIAS | Foreign Investment Advisory Service | ||
| FMTI | Forest Market Transformation Initiative | ||
| FPSI | Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure network | ||
| GCC | Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf | ||
| GDP | Gross domestic product | ||
| GEF | Global Environment Facility | ||
| GMT | Grassroots management training | ||
| HD | Human development (and HD network) | ||
| HIPCs | Heavily Indebted Poor Countries | ||
| HNP | Health, nutrition and population | ||
| IBRD | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development | ||
| ICSID | International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes | ||
| ICR | Implementation completion report | ||
| ICRISAT | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics | ||
| IDA | International Development Association | ||
| IDB | Inter-American Development Bank | ||
| IDF | Institutional Development Fund | ||
| IFC | International Finance Corporation | ||
| ILO | International Labour Organization | ||
| IMF | International Monetary Fund | ||
| InfoDev | Information for Development | ||
| ITF | Interim Trust Fund | ||
| IUCN | World Conservation Union | ||
| KMS | Knowledge management system | ||
| LAC | Latin America and Caribbean region | ||
| LIBOR | London Interbank Offered Rate | ||
| MENA | Middle East and North Africa region | ||
| MFMP | Multilateral Fund of the Montreal Protocol | ||
| MIGA | Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency | ||
| MP | Montreal Protocol | ||
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement | ||
| NEAP | National environmental action plan | ||
| NGO | Nongovernmental organization | ||
| ODS | Ozone-depleting substances | ||
| OECD/DAC | Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development/ Development Assistance Committee | ||
| OECF | Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (Japan) | ||
| OED | Operations Evaluation Department | ||
| PAHO | Pan American Health Organization | ||
| PER | Public expenditure review | ||
| PHRD | Policy and Human Resources Development Fund | ||
| PIC | Public Information Center | ||
| PIP | Portfolio Improvement Program | ||
| PPI | Private provision of infrastructure | ||
| PREM | Poverty reduction and economic management network | ||
| PTI | Program of Targeted Interventions | ||
| SAARC | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation | ||
| SAL | Structural adjustment loan | ||
| SAR | Staff Appraisal Report | ||
| SAS | South Asia region | ||
| SDR | Special drawing rights | ||
| SECAL | Sectoral adjustment loan | ||
| SIP | Sector investment program | ||
| SPA | Special Program of Assistance | ||
| SSP | Sector strategy paper | ||
| UNDP | United Nations Development Program | ||
| UNECA | United Nations Economic Commission for Africa | ||
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization | ||
| UNICEF | United Nations Children's Fund | ||
| WHO | World Health Organization | ||
| WWF | World Wildlife Fund | ||
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