Abbreviations - আরবিআই - Reserve Bank of India
Abbreviations
ACF |
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Auto Correlation Function |
AD |
– |
Actual Deficit |
ADs |
– |
Authorised Dealers |
ADRs |
– |
American Depository Receipts |
AEZs |
– |
Agriculture Economic Zones |
AIBP |
– |
Accelerated Irrigation Benefit Programme |
AIFIs |
– |
All-India Financial Institutions |
AL |
– |
Autonomous Liquidity |
AMS |
– |
Aggregate Measure of Support |
AoA |
– |
Agreement on Agriculture |
APDRP |
– |
Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme |
BA/NA |
– |
Bid Amount/Notified Amount |
BIMSET-EC– |
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand-Economic Cooperation |
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BIS |
– |
Bank for International Settlements |
BoP |
– |
Balance of Payments |
BPL |
– |
Below Poverty Line |
CAC |
– |
Capital Account Convertibility |
CACP |
– |
Commission on Agricultural Costs and Prices |
CAD |
– |
Current Account Deficit |
CAG |
– |
Comptroller and Auditor General of India |
CAPM |
– |
Capital Asset Pricing Model |
CAS |
– |
Credit Authorisation Scheme |
CBEC |
– |
Central Board of Excise and Customs |
CCIL |
– |
Clearing Corporation of India Limited |
CCS |
– |
Cash Compensatory Scheme |
CD |
– |
Cyclical Deficit |
CEECs |
– |
Central, Eastern and European Countries |
CGE |
– |
Computable General Equilibrium |
CI |
– |
Crowding-In |
CILI |
– |
Composite Index of Leading Indicators |
CIS |
– |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
CMIE |
– |
Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy |
CPI |
– |
Consumer Price Index |
CPI-IW |
– |
Consumer Price Index for Industrial Workers |
CPSUs |
– |
Central Public Sector Undertakings |
CRAR |
– |
Capital to Risk-Weighted Assets Ratio |
CRR |
– |
Cash Reserve Ratio |
CSO |
– |
Central Statistical Organisation |
DCF |
– |
Debt Creating Flows |
DCCBs |
– |
District Central Co-operative Banks |
DEPB |
– |
Duty Entitlement Passbook |
DFHI |
– |
Discount and Finance House of India |
DFI |
– |
Development Finance Institution |
DFRC |
– |
Duty Free Replenishment Certificate |
DGCI&S |
– |
Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics |
DGFT |
– |
Directorate General of Foreign Trade |
DL |
– |
Discretionary Liquidity |
DRI |
– |
Differential Rate of Interest |
DTA |
– |
Domestic Tariff Area |
DvP |
– |
Delivery versus Payment |
EAC |
– |
Economic Advisory Council |
ECBs |
– |
External Commercial Borrowings |
EDI |
– |
Electronic Data Interchange |
EEFC |
– |
Exchange Earners’ Foreign Currency |
EFC |
– |
Eleventh Finance Commission |
EFTA |
– |
European Free Trade Association |
EHTP |
– |
Electronic Hardware Technology Park |
EOUs |
– |
Export Oriented Units |
EPCG |
– |
Export Promotion Capital Goods |
EPZs |
– |
Export Processing Zones |
ERR |
– |
Economic Rate of Return |
ESOP |
– |
Employee Stock Option |
EU |
– |
European Union |
EXIM |
– |
Export Import Bank/Policy |
FC(B&O) |
– |
Foreign Currency Bank and Ordinary |
FC(ON) |
– |
Foreign Currency Ordinary Non-Resident |
FCCBs |
– |
Foreign Currency Convertible Bonds |
FCNR(B) |
– |
Foreign Currency Non-Resident (Banks) |
FCNR(A) |
– |
Foreign Currency Non-Resident Account |
FCRCs |
– |
Foreign Controlled Rupee Companies |
FDI |
– |
Foreign Direct Investment |
FEDAI |
– |
Foreign Exchange Dealers’ Association of India |
FEMA |
– |
Foreign Exchange Management Act |
FERA |
– |
Foreign Exchange Regulation Act |
FHP |
– |
Farm Harvest Prices |
FIIs |
– |
Foreign Institutional Investors |
FPI |
– |
Foreign Portfolio Investment |
FRA |
– |
Forward Rate Agreement |
FRBMB |
– |
Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Bill |
FRBs |
– |
Floating Rate Bonds |
FRL |
– |
Full Reservoir Level |
GATS |
– |
General Agreement on Trade in Services |
GATT |
– |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
GCF |
– |
Gross Capital Formation |
GDCF |
– |
Gross Domestic Capital Formation |
GDS |
– |
Gross Domestic Saving |
GDP |
– |
Gross Domestic Product |
GDRs |
– |
Global Depository Receipts |
GFD |
– |
Gross Fiscal Deficit |
HP |
– |
Hodrick - Prescott |
ICOR |
– |
Incremental Capital Output Ratio |
ICRA |
– |
Investment and Credit Rating Agency |
IDA |
– |
International Development Association |
IDB |
– |
India Development Bond |
IDBI |
– |
Industrial Development Bank of India |
IFCI |
– |
Industrial Finance Corporation of India |
IIBI |
– |
Industrial Investment Bank of India |
IIP |
– |
Index of Industrial Production |
ILAF |
– |
Interim Liquidity Adjustment Facility |
ILO |
– |
International Labour Organisation |
IMD |
– |
India Millennium Deposit |
IMF |
– |
International Monetary Fund |
IP |
– |
Intellectual Property |
IPOs |
– |
Initial Public Offerings |
IRDA |
– |
Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority |
IRS |
– |
Interest Rate Swaps |
IT |
– |
Information Technology |
ITOT |
– |
Income Terms of Trade |
KCC |
– |
Kisan Credit Card |
LAC |
– |
Latin American and Caribbean Countries |
LAF |
– |
Liquidity Adjustment Facility |
LERMS |
– |
Liberalised Exchange Rate Management System |
LIBOR |
– |
London Inter-Bank Offer Rate |
LPA |
– |
Long Period Average |
LTO |
– |
Long Term Operation |
M3 |
– |
Broad Money |
MAPE |
– |
Mean Absolute Percentage Error |
MFN |
– |
Most Favoured Nation |
MNCs |
– |
Multi-National Corporations |
MoU |
– |
Memorandum of Understanding |
MPC |
– |
Marginal Propensity to Consume |
MSP |
– |
Minimum Support Price |
MTFRP |
– |
Medium-Term Fiscal Reform Programme |
NAFTA |
– |
North American Free Trade Agreement |
NASSCOM– |
National Association of Software Services and Companies |
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NBFCs |
– |
Non-Banking Financial Companies |
NBFIs |
– |
Non-Banking Financial Institutions |
NCAER |
– |
National Council of Applied Economic Research |
NCF |
– |
Net Capital Flows |
NDAs |
– |
Net Domestic Assets |
NDCF |
– |
Non-Debt Capital Flow |
NDS |
– |
Negotiated Dealing System |
NDTL |
– |
Net Demand and Time Liabilities |
NEER |
– |
Nominal Effective Exchange Rate |
NFA |
– |
Net Foreign Assets |
NIC |
– |
National Industrial Classification |
NPAs |
– |
Non-Performing Assets |
NPRIOL |
– |
Non-Priority Sector Loans to Total Loan |
NR(NR)RD– |
Non-Resident (Non-Repatriable) Rupee Deposit |
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NR(E)RA |
– |
Non-Resident External Rupee Account |
NRIs |
– |
Non-Resident Indians |
NRO |
– |
Non-Resident Ordinary |
NR(S)RA |
– |
Non-Resident Special Rupee Account |
NTOT |
– |
Net Terms of Trade |
NTPC |
– |
National Thermal Power Corporation |
NTR |
– |
Non-Tax Revenues |
OBUs |
– |
Overseas Banking Units |
OCBs |
– |
Overseas Corporate Bodies |
OECD |
– |
Organisation of Economic Co - Operation and Development |
OGL |
– |
Open General Licence |
OLS |
– |
Ordinary Least Squares |
OMO |
– |
Open Market Operations |
OMS |
– |
Open Market Sales |
OPEC |
– |
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
OWS |
– |
Other Welfare Schemes |
PDs |
– |
Primary Dealers |
PDS |
– |
Public Distribution System |
PIO |
– |
Persons of Indian Origin |
PLRs |
– |
Prime Lending Rates |
POL |
– |
Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants |
PSU |
– |
Public Sector Undertaking |
QRs |
– |
Quantitative Restrictions |
RBI |
– |
Reserve Bank of India |
R&D |
– |
Research and Development |
RE |
– |
Revised Estimate |
REER |
– |
Real Effective Exchange Rate |
RFC(D) |
– |
Resident Foreign Currency Domestic |
RIBs |
– |
Resurgent India Bonds |
RIDF |
– |
Rural Infrastructure Development Fund |
RNBCs |
– |
Residuary Non-Banking Companies |
RoW |
– |
Rest of World |
RMSPE |
– |
Root Mean Square Percentage Error |
RPS |
– |
Retention Price Schemes |
RTGS |
– |
Real Time Gross Settlement |
SAPTA |
– |
SAARC Preferential Trading Agreement |
SBI |
– |
State Bank of India |
SCBs |
– |
Scheduled Commercial Banks |
SD |
– |
Structural Deficit |
SDP |
– |
State Domestic Product |
SEBs |
– |
State Electricity Boards |
SERC |
– |
State Electricity Regulatory Commission |
SEZs |
– |
Special Economic Zones |
SGF |
– |
Settlement Guarantee Fund |
SIDBI |
– |
Small Industries Development Bank of India |
SIL |
– |
Special Import Licence |
SLR |
– |
Statutory Liquidity Ratio |
SMP |
– |
Statutory Minimum Price |
SPSU |
– |
State Public Sector Undertaking |
SRTU |
– |
State Road Transport Undertaking |
SSI |
– |
Small-Scale Industries |
STRIPS |
– |
Separate Trading for Registered Interest and Principal of Securities |
TFCI |
– |
Tourism Finance Corporation of India |
TFP |
– |
Total Factor Productivity |
TNCs |
– |
Transnational Corporations |
TPDS |
– |
Targeted Public Distribution System |
TRIPs |
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Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights |
UCBs |
– |
Urban Co-operative Banks |
UMA |
– |
Unpleasant Monetarist Arithmetic |
UNCTAD |
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United National Conference on Trade and Development |
URIF |
– |
Urban Reforms Incentive Funds |
UTI |
– |
Unit Trust of India |
VAT |
– |
Value Added Tax |
VAR |
– |
Vector Auto Regression |
VRS |
– |
Voluntary Retirement Scheme |
WEO |
– |
World Economic Outlook |
WMA |
– |
Ways and Means Advances |
WOS |
– |
Wholly Owned Subsidiaries |
WPI |
– |
Wholesale Price Index |
WTO |
– |
World Trade Organisation |