Electronic resources in the Library (number of databases)

Source Database of International Red Cross.

Source ICFES. Higher Education Statistics, Databank, 1991 and 1996.

UNEP, through its network of GRID centres, developed the GRID Meta data directory tool to provide both an electronic and hard copy catalogue of worldwide GRID data sources.

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One operational GRID centre, GRID Warsaw, has been established and three more GRID centres will be established in 1997 at Budapest, Moscow and Tbilisi.

GRID Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)

Source UNCTAD database, based on Comtrade.

While GRID Bangkok, GRID Geneva, GRID Sioux Falls, GRID Arendal and GRID Nairobi were providing, as the major centres, Internet and World Wide Web access and File Transfer Protocol access at the end of 1997, GRID Sioux Falls continues to lead the activity in data provision, and from its award winning Internet site, over a million of freely available files have been transferred during the past two years.

Source UNCTAD database.

The GRID Meta Database Management System will be implemented in 1996 and will provide a catalog (electronic and hard copy) of worldwide GRID data resources.

Source Ozone Secretariat database.

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GRID Global Resource Information Database (UNEP)

Database on financial sources. Objective maintain and disseminate a database of financial sources in order to increase the level and effectiveness of financing for CCD implementation.

Source UNCTAD, database on BITs.

The Soil Conservation Service (redesignated the Natural Resources Conservation Service or NRCS in October 1994) adopted digital orthophotography as the common framework for collecting and managing natural resource geospatial databases.

Source ITU World Telecommunication Indicators Database.

GRID Sioux Falls and EDC have compiled an exhaustive list that has been distributed to all GRID centres.

Source database is the same as destination.

Source World Bank, Global Development Finance 2005, online database.

Source UNCTAD, FDI TNCs database.

UNEP, through GRID Arendal, is continuing to maintain the Baltic Sea catchment area database.

Acronym Database

The following factors have been used in the calculation of resources

Select Source Database

Select source database.

The above mentioned GIS database can be accessed through the World Wide Web site of GRID Arendal.

SOTER Soils and Terrain (UNEP)

Source UNCTAD, FDI TNC database (www.unctad.org fdi statistics).

Source UNCTAD, FDI TNC database. (www.unctad.org fdistatistics).

Projections for 2006 2007 levelled in at 1.9 billion for core and 5.6 billion for non core.

String marking the column in the database

The project, which is being implemented through GRID Arendal in Norway, is helping to enhance the bilateral cooperation between the GRID facilities and CGIAR centres in various regions, such as the cooperation between GRID Bangkok and the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), and between GRID Nairobi and the International Council for Research in Agroforestry.

Source Computation based on Prowess Database (2002) and RIS OFDI Dataset.

Source World Bank, Global Development Finance, 1998, Analysis and summary tables, p. 50, table 3.1 1997 figures are preliminary.

Information database

Examples include the Centrally Managed Software System, the Office of Human Resources Management databases that are complementary to IMIS and the Treasury Investment System.

Briefing by the Global Resource Information Database (GRID) Arendal.

Source Eurostat database, 2005 UNCTAD e business database, 2005.