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The country that is a source of migratory flows (legal or illegal). 

Foreigners admitted by a country other than their own because of their historical, ethnic or other ties with that country, who, by virtue of those ties, are immediately granted the right of long-term residence in that country or who, having the right to nationality in that country, become nationals within a short period after admission.

The State of which the person concerned is a national (Art. 6(a), International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 1990).

Resources in monetary terms expended in carrying out activities.

A form of economic evaluation where costs are expressed in money terms but consequences are expresed in physical units. It is used to compare different ways of achieving the same objective.

A form of economic evaluation where all costs and consequences are expressed in money terms. It enables to assess whether a particular objective is worth achieving.

A set of measures to control or reduce waste of resources in allocation, to stop costs from rising, to reduce the cost in real terms, to prevent costs from rising faster the national resources, e.g. GDP. Cost containment policy measures may differ:                                                                                         -

• budget ceilings or use of fixed budget;
• control on staff numbers;
• control on prices of goods and services;
• control on quantity of goods;
• control on financial incentives e.g. restrictions on sale or
• promotion of drugs by doctors;
• control on construction and extension of hospitals;
• control on over;
• utilization of expensive medical equipment;
• control on medical school admission and specialist training.

Indigence or destitution, usually specified as the inability to satisfy even minimum food needs. Extreme poverty should be defined as a composite of income poverty, human development and social exclusion, to encompass the notions of lack of basic security and capability deprivation.
 

Name given by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2003 to an atypical pneumonia of unknown aetiology (medical cause). Name was given after an outbreak affecting, in particular, several Asian countries, and most particularly the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Guangdong Province, China.

There have been different such assemblies, including:

(1) the First at Vienna, Austria, from 26 July to 6 August 1982. Adopted the Vienna International Plan of Action on Aging;
(2) the Second World Assembly on Ageing, held in Madrid, Spain, from 8 to 12 April 2002. Adopted the Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing.

The proportion of the adult population (15 years and over) who are smokers (both daily and occasional) at a point in time.

The number of children who would be born per woman if the woman was to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children at each age in accordance with prevailing age-specific fertility rates.

The number of live births for every 1000 population in a given year or period of time.

Number of births to women in a particular age group, divided by the number of women in that age group. The age groups used are: 15-19, 20-24,….45-49. The data refer to five-year periods running from 1 July to 30 June of the initial and final years.

An original document, usually issued under governmental or religious authority, stating inter alia, when and where a person was born.

Average annual number of births over a given period. Refers to five-year periods running from 1 July to 30 June of the initial and final years. Data are presented in thousands.

Number of births over a given period classified by age group of mother (15-19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34…..45-49). Refers to five-year periods running from 1 July to 30 June of the initial and final years. Data are presented in thousands.

A migrant worker employed on an offshore instalinstallation lation that is under the jurisdiction of a State of which he or she is not a national (Art. 2(2) (d), International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 1990).

Comprises all ocean and coastal waters, including intertidal zones and saltwater marshes, as well as adjacent coastal and riparian land areas, and extending, in the case of watercourses, up to the freshwater limit.

Twenty-three principles on marine pollution endorsed by the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment held in Stockholm.

11 February 1971; London, Moscow, Washington.

Prohibits parties from placing nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction on the seabed and the ocean floor beyond a 12-mile coastal zone. Seeks to prevent the introduction of international conflict and nuclear weapons into an area currently free of them, and allows member States to observe all seabed "activity" of any other member State beyond the 12-mile zone in order to ensure compliance.

Programme acceleration funds were designed to assist the UN theme group to play a catalytic and facilitating role in advancing the scope, scale and effectiveness of a country’s response to the AIDS epidemic. Activities to be funded must be in line with one or more of the five cross-cutting functions of UNAIDS: to empower leadership for an effective country response; to mobilize and empower public, private and civil society partnerships and civil society engagement; to strengthen strategic information management; to build capacities to plan, track, monitor and evaluate country responses; and to enable access to, and efficient use of, financial and technical resources. In addition, funded activities must be in accordance with Global Task Team (GTT) recommendations.  

A migrant worker admitted to a State of employment for a defined period to work solely on a specific project being carried out in that State by his or her employer (Art. 2(2) (f), International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, 1990).