amarpaul Aug 31, 2011:

If you have the time and are ... ... in the mood for a laugh:

[http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/04/on-bureaucratese-and-go...]

Allison Wright (X) Aug 31, 2011:

One other (unrelated) thing in your link, Nadia In the list of acronyms: FODA. I am fairly certain that this should be SWOT analysis. Two problems. http://franciscomiguelsousa.blogspot.com/2009/09/foda-analys... explains the first.
The second is that in English, FODA stands for Feature Oriented Domain Analysis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature-oriented_domain_analysi... and has to do with software engineering. Your text is unlikely to be referring to this. In any case "FODA" stands on its own, without "analysis" after it. SWOT (Strengths, weakness, opportunities, threats) analysis is what the explanation of the acronym appears to be referring to.

Charles Davis Aug 31, 2011:

Could "derive at the national income" be a typo for "arrive at the national income", I wonder?

AllegroTrans Aug 31, 2011:

Yes and I remember the days when school pupils were taught the "Queen's English"...our language has degenerated both in grammar and the use of ridiculous expressions.
Where is Victor Meldrew?

mediamatrix (X) Aug 31, 2011:

Huh! I remember the days when heads would roll for publishing junk like this anywhere within the UN system.

Nadia Ayoub (asker) Aug 31, 2011:

Hi David, See: http://www.unfpa.org/pds/PSA_Guide.pdf
p.35

David Hollywood Aug 31, 2011:

where does the text come from?

David Hollywood Aug 31, 2011:

this is not English