Appendix l Symbols and Abbreviations sample symbols and abbreviations

The present thesis includes the following symbols, interpretations, abbreviations and acronyms:

1 least developed country; LDC: is a country that, according to the United Nations, exhibits the lowest indicators of socio-economic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world. The concept of LDCs originated in the late 1960s. A country is classified as a Least Developed Country if it meets three criteria: Poverty (3-year average GNI per capita of less than US $992), Human resource weakness and Economic vulnerability.

2 official international reserves (reserve assets): assets held by central banks and monetary authorities; include foreign currency deposits and bonds, also gold reserves, special drawing rights, and International Monetary Fund reserve positions.

3 real exchange rate; RER: is the purchasing power of a currency relative to another at current exchange rates and prices. It is the ratio of the number of units of a given country's currency necessary to buy a market basket of goods in the other country, after acquiring the other country's currency in the foreign exchange market, to the number of units of the given country's currency that would be necessary to buy that market basket directly in the given country.

4 United Nations World Tourism Organization; UNWTO: is the United Nations agency responsible for the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism.

Appendix м Specimen of Tables and Figures Formatting

Table М.1 — Foreign trade of Belarus, millions of dollars

Index	2009	2010	2011	2012
Total trade	54 228,6	66 103,5	94 283,1	100 713,0
Exports	24 310,3	29 301,7	46 537,1	51 860,7
Imports	29 918,3	36 801,8	47 746,0	48 852,3
Trade balance	-5 608,0	-7 500,1	-1 208,9	3 008,4
Including trade with Russia: Total trade	24 165,6	28 976,3	41 196,9	45 572,7
Exports	7 183,10	10 581,30	15 422,60	17 661,50
Imports	16 982,50	18 395,00	25 774,30	27 911,20
Trade balance	-9 799,4	-7 813,7	-10 351,7	-10 249,7

Note — Source: [20, с. 10].

Table М.2 – Index of Economic Freedom 2014

Country name	Property Rights	Freedom from Corruption	Fiscal Freedom	Gov't Spending	Business Freedom	Labor Freedom	Monetary Freedom	Trade Freedom	Investment Freedom	Financial Freedom
Belarus	20	24,6	89,2	61,2	73,4	77,7	33,9	81,4	30	10
Kazakhstan	30	25,7	92,9	85,0	74,4	86,7	74,4	78,2	40	50
Russia	25	22,1	85,6	61,5	70,0	55,8	69,4	74,6	25	30

Notes –

1 Source: [12].

2 The Index of Economic Freedom is measured based on 10 quantitative and qualitative factors. Each of the ten economic freedoms is graded on a scale of 0 (repressed economy) to 100 (high economic freedom).