| AIDS |
Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome |
| APC |
Association for Progressive
Communication |
| AT&T |
American Telephone &
Telegraph |
| CEO |
Central Executive Officer |
| CI |
Citizen's Income |
| CRPF |
Commercial Restoration
Plantation Forest |
| DMS |
Dimethyl Sulphide, (CH3)2S |
| ECOSOC |
UN Economic & Social
Council |
| EDI |
Electronic Data Interchange |
| EEC |
European Economic Community |
| EU |
European Union |
| GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade |
| GM |
General Motors |
| GNP |
Gross National Product |
| HDR |
Human Development Report |
| HIV |
Human Immunodeficiency Virus |
| IBM |
International Business
Machines |
| IGBP |
International
Geosphere-Biosphere Programme |
| ILO |
International Labour
Organisation |
| IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
| IPC |
Intellectual Property
Committee |
| LDC |
Least (or Lesser) Developed
Country |
| MAI |
Mutual Agreement on Investment |
| MBL |
Mutual Benefit & Life (an
US insurance company) |
| MIT |
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology |
| MTV |
Music Television |
| NAFTA |
North American Free Trade
Agreement |
| NASA |
National Aeronautics &
Space Administration (US space agency) |
| ODA |
Official Development
Assistance |
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development |
| OMB |
Office of Management and
Budget |
| PCDF |
People-Centred Development
Forum |
| PSR |
Physicians for Social
Responsibility |
| SAP |
Structural Adjustment
Programme |
| SILIC |
Severely Indebted Low-Income
Country |
| TB |
Tuberculosis |
| TNC |
Transnational Corporation |
| UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference on
Trade And Development |
| UNDP |
United Nations Development
Programme |
| USDA |
United States Department of
Agriculture |
| USTR |
United States Trade
Representative |
| WHO |
World Health Organisation |
| WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
| WWF |
World Wide Fund for Nature
(aka World Wildlife Fund) |