nd Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, UAE,
Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, Wallis
and Futuna, West Bank, Western Sahara, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe;

note - similar to the new International Monetary Fund (IMF) term
"developing countries" which adds Malta, Mexico, South Africa, and
Turkey but omits in its recently published statistics American Samoa,
Anguilla, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Cayman Islands, Christmas
Island, Cocos Islands, Cook Islands, Cuba, Eritrea, Falkland Islands,
French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gaza Strip, Gibraltar, Greenland,
Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guernsey, Jersey, North Korea, Macau, Isle
of Man, Martinique, Mayotte, Montserrat, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue,
Norfolk Island, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Pitcairn Islands, Puerto
Rico, Reunion, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Tokelau, Tonga,
Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Virgin Islands, Wallis and Futuna,
West Bank, Western Sahara

** low-income countries **

another term for those less developed countries with below-average per
capita GDPs; see less developed countries (LDCs)

** middle-income countries **

another term for those less developed countries with above-average per
capita GDPs; see less developed countries (LDCs)

** Monetary and Economic Community of Central Africa (CEMAC) **

note - was formerly the Central African Customs and Economic Union (UDEAC)

established - 8 December 1964; effective - 1 January 1966

aim - to promote the establishment of a Central African Common Market

members - (7) Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the
Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Sao Tome and Principe

** Near Abroad **

Russian term for the 14 non-Russian successor states of the USSR, in
which 25 million ethnic Russians live and in which Moscow has expressed
a strong national security interest; the 14 countries are Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,
Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan

** new independent states (NIS) **

a term referring to all those countries of the FSU except the Baltic
countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)

** newly industrializing countries (NICs) **

former term for the newly industrializing economies; see newly
industrializing economies (NIEs)

** newly industrializing economies (NIEs) **

that subgroup of the less developed countries (LDCs) that has