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American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC (1943 ff.; http://www. aei.org)

Aid to Families with Dependent Children, USA (1935–1997; now TANF)

Active labour market policies (1990s ff.)

The international anti-globalization network ATTAC (1998 ff.; Action pour une Taxe Tobin d’Aide aux Citoyens ¼ Association for the Taxation of Financial Transactions for the Aid of Citizens; http://www.attac.org/)

Brazil, Russia, India, & China

Conditional cash transfer programme

Central and Eastern European

Comisio´n Econo´mica para Ame´rica Latina y el Caribe, Santiago, Chile (¼ ECLAC; 1948 ff.; http://www.eclac.org/)

Central Provident Fund, Singapore (1955 ff.; http://mycpf.cpf.gov.sg)

Centre for Policy Studies, London (1974 ff.; http://www.cps.org.uk/)

Coefficient of variation CWED Comparative Welfare Entitlements Dataset (http://www.sp.uconn.edu/ ~scruggs/wp.htm)

Defined contribution

Diagnosis related group

European Court of Justice, Luxembourg (1952 ff.; http://curia.europa.eu)

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago, Chile (¼ CEPAL; 1948 ff.; http://www.eclac.org/)

Error correction models

European Free Trade Association, countermovement to founding the

[EU] in 1957 (1960 ff.; http://www.efta.int/)

Earned Income Tax Credit, USA (also EIC; 1975 ff.; in UK: Working Tax Credit)

Employment protection legislation

Event structure analysis

European Social Fund, Brussels (EU; 1957 ff.; http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/esf/index_en.htm)

European Union as of Maastricht Treaty 1992, Brussels (EEC [European Economic Community] or EC [European Community]; 1957–1992; http://europa.eu/index_en.htm) OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINALS, 3/8/2012, SPi

The Euro currency (also !; accounting currency 1999–2001; in circulation as of 2002, 2009 in 16 Member States) Eurostat Statistical Office of the European Communities [European Union], Luxembourg (1953 ff.; http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat)

General Agreement on Trade in Services (1995 ff.; under WTO; see http://www.wto.org/)

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947 ff.; see now WTO http://www.wto.org/)

Gross domestic product

Gross national product

General (medical) practitioner, UK

Global Program on AIDS, UN (but see also WHO; 2001 ff.; http://www.un.org/ga/aids/ungassfactsheets/html/fssgcall_en.htm and http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp)

Health Maintenance Organization, USA

Health and Retirement Study, USA (http://hrsonline.isr.umich.edu/)

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development ¼ World Bank (WB),Washington, DC (1946 ff.; with IMF one of the two BrettonWoods institutions founded in 1944; http://www.worldbank.org/)

International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes,Washington, DC (1966 ff.; WB founded arbitration institution devoted to investor-state dispute settlement; http://icsid.worldbank.org/ICSID/)

International Development Association,Washington, DC (1960 ff.; grantmaking or interest free credit-providing branch of the WB; via http://www.worldbank.org/)

Institute for Economic Affairs, London (1955 ff.; http://www.iea.org.uk/)

International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC (1956 ff.; member of WB Group, financing investment in private sector in developing countries; http://www.ifc.org/)

International financial institutions

International governmental organizations

International Labour Organization [and Office], Geneva, Switzerland (1919 ff.; http://www.ilo.org/)

International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC (1944 ff. http://www.imf. org/)

International non-governmental organizations

Intergovernmental organizations

Import substitution industrialization

International Social Survey Programme (1984 ff.; http://www.issp.org/)

Kuomintang, China

Less developed country

Liberal Democratic Party, Japan

Luxembourg Income Study, Luxembourg (1983 ff.; http://www.lisproject. org/)

Long-term care

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency,Washington, DC (1988 ff.; WB Group; http://www.miga.org/)

Minimum Living Standard Guarantee, China (and South Korea)

Notional defined contribution

National health insurance

National Health Service, UK (1948 ff.; http://www.nhs.uk)

Newly industrialized countries

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris (1961 ff.; dates back to Marshall Plan 1948–1951; http://www.oecd.org)

Open Method of Coordination, EU (Lisbon Strategy; 2000 ff.)

Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Vienna (1960 ff.; http://www.opec.org)

Pay as you go

Purchasing power parity

Qualitative comparative analysis

Social Citizenship Indicators Programme (http://www.snd.gu.se/sv/catalogue/series/55)

Standard deviation

State Earnings-Related Pension Scheme, UK (1978–2002; replaced 2002 by State Second Pension)

Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (http://www.shareproject. org/)

Social Expenditure Data Set (OECD; http://www.oecd.org/els/social/expenditure)

State-owned enterprise

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, US (1997 ff.)

Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (1994 ff.; under WTO; see http://www.wto.org/)

Time-series cross-section

United Nations, New York (1945 ff.; http://www.un.org)

United Nations Development Program, New York etc. (1965 ff.; http://www.undp.org/)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris (1946 ff.; http://portal.unesco.org/)

US Dollars (US$)

World Bank; Washington, DC (1946 ff.; see also IBRD; with IMF one of the two Bretton Woods institutions founded in 1944; http://www.worldbank.org/)

World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (1948 ff.; http://www.who.int/en/)

Working Tax Credit, UK (2003 ff., predecessor 1999–2003 WFTC with ‘F’ standing for families; see also EITC, USA)

World Trade Organization, Geneva, Switzerland (1993 ff.; http://www.wto.org)

United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC (1961 ff.; originates with Marshall Plan 1948–1951; http://www.usaid.gov/)