Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations for 1990: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, Part 2

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Page 471 - The total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children at each age in accordance with prevailing age-specific fertility rates.
Page 1137 - GDP is defined as the total final output of goods and services produced by an economy regardless of the allocation to domestic and foreign claims.
Page 478 - GNP refers to net disbursements of official development assistance (ODA) from all sources including members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD...
Page 1144 - Official development assistance (ODA) consists of net disbursements of loans and grants made on concessional financial terms by official agencies of the members of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to promote economic development and welfare.
Page 542 - Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world with over 1,900 people per square mile (1988).
Page 1140 - Life expectancy at birth is the number of years a newborn infant would live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life.
Page 43 - African countries today do all citizens have access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life, ie, food security. Global food supply does not constrain the solution of Africa's hunger problem. Countries and individuals who do not produce enough for complete coverage of their own consumption needs ("self-sufficiency") can purchase all the food they want — if they have adequate incomes and lf_ they have adequate access to markets.
Page 471 - The summary measures are weighted by population. The labor force comprises economically active persons aged 10 years and over, including the armed forces and the unemployed, but excluding housewives, students, and other economically inactive groups.
Page 472 - It represents the estinated average number of years a newborn infant would be expected to live if prevailing patterns of mortality at the time of birth were to remain the same throughout its life.
Page 472 - In rural areas it implies that members of the household do not have to spend a disproportionate part of the day fetching water.

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