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Abbreviations<br />

AFESD Arab Fund for Economic <strong>and</strong> Social <strong>Development</strong>, Cairo<br />

AHDR Arab Human <strong>Development</strong> Report<br />

ALO Arab Labour Organisation / Arab Labour Office, Cairo<br />

BMZ Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und<br />

Entwicklung/ Federal German Ministry for Economic Cooperation<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>Development</strong>, Bonn<br />

CAS Country assistance strategy<br />

CFC Chloro-Fluoro Carbon<br />

DAC <strong>Development</strong> Assistance Committee of <strong>the</strong> OECD, Paris<br />

DALE Disability-adjusted life expectancy<br />

(an arithmetic value: life expectancy in full heath, i.e. life expectancy<br />

minus expected years of health life lost due to disability)<br />

DC <strong>Development</strong> cooperation<br />

DIE Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik/ German <strong>Development</strong><br />

Institute, Bonn<br />

EFA Education for All initiative<br />

ESCWA United Nations Economic <strong>and</strong> Social Commission for Western<br />

Asia, Beirut, New York<br />

EU European Union<br />

FAO Food <strong>and</strong> Agriculture Organization, Rome<br />

FC Financial cooperation<br />

FCND Food Consumption <strong>and</strong> Nutrition Division of <strong>the</strong> International<br />

Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC<br />

FDI Foreign direct investment<br />

FES Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn, Berlin<br />

FTI Fast Track Initiative<br />

GDI Gender development index (arithmetic measure developed by<br />

UNDP; calculated in a way similar to <strong>the</strong> HDI, <strong>the</strong> GDI measures<br />

differences in <strong>the</strong> human development of <strong>the</strong> genders, ranking <strong>the</strong>m<br />

on a scale that ranges from 0 to 1)<br />

GDP Gross domestic product<br />

GNI Gross national income<br />

GNP Gross national product

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