| APEC | Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation |
| ASEAN | Association of South East Asian Nations |
| BWIs | Bretton Woods Institutions |
| CEM | Country Economic Memorandum |
| CEPAL | Comision Economica para America Latina (or ECLA) |
| ECLA | Economic Commission for Latin America (or CEPAL) |
| EFF | Extended Fund Facilities |
| ESAF | Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GEF | Global Environment Facility |
| GNP | Gross National Product |
| IBRD | International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
| IFC | International Finance Corporation |
| IFIs | International Financial Institutions |
| ILO | International Labour Organisation |
| IMF | International Monetary Fund |
| ISI | Import Substitution Industrialisation |
| MAI | Multilateral Agreement on Investments |
| MOSOP | Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People |
| NACLA | North American Congress on Latin America |
| NAFTA | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| NEAPs | National Environmental Action Plans |
| NGOs | Non-Governmental Organisations |
| NICs | Newly Industrialised Countries |
| OAU | Organisation of African Unity |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| PAIT | Programme of Support and Temporary Income |
| PAMSCAD | Programme of Action to Mitigate the Social Costs of Adjust ment |
| PNDC | Provisional National Defence Council |
| RCT | Rational Choice Theory |
| SAF | Structural Adjustment Facility |
| SALs | Structural Adjustment Loans |
| SBAs | Stand-by Arrangements |
| SAPs | Structural Adjustment Programmes |
| SDA | Social Dimensions of Adjustment |
| SDRs | Special Drawing Rights |
| TNCs | Trans-national Corporations |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNCTAD | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| UNECA | United Nations Economic Commission for Africa |
| UNICEF | United Nations Children’s Fund |
| WTO | World Trade Organisation |