Abbreviations

AIC

Association Interprofessionnelle du Coton

AL

Awami League

ANDF

Agence Nationale du Domaine et du Foncier

BNP

Bangladesh National Party

CCM

Chama Cha Mapinduzi

CE

School Council

CIS

Country Institutional Surveys

DLHT

District Land and Housing Tribunals

EPB

Economic Planning Board

EWURA

Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GNI

Gross National Income

GNP

Gross National Product

HCI

Heavy and Chemical Industries

ICA

Industrial Coordination Act

ICBT

Informal Cross-Border Trade

IDP

Institutional Diagnostic Project

IMF

International Monetary Fund

IPD

Institutional Profile Database

ISI

Intelligence Services

JCRR

Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction

KADU

Kenya African Democratic Union

KCIA

Korean Central Intelligence Agency

KMT

Kuomintang

LAC

Least Advanced Country

LDC

Least Developed Country

MCC

Millennium Challenge Corporation

MFA

Multi-Fibre Arrangement

MITI

Ministry of International Trade and Industry

MLHHSD

Ministry of Land, Housing, and Human Settlement Development

NGO

Non-Governmental Organisation

NPL

Non-Performing Loan

NRC

Natural Resources Commission

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

POSCO

Pohang Iron and Steel Company

QoG

Quality of Government (database)

RCT

Randomised Control Trial

RMG

Ready-Made Garment

SAP

Structural Adjustment Programme

SEZ

Special Economic Zone

SME

Small and Medium-sized Enterprise

SOE

State-Owned Enterprise

TANESCO

Tanzania Electric Supply Company

TANU

Tanganyika African National Union

TFP

Total Factor Productivity

UMNO

United Malays National Organisation

USAID

United States Agency for International Development

WAEMU

West African Economic and Monetary Union

WGI

Worldwide Governance Indicators