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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/48694
License name: CC BY-SA 4.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

I assume you're using latex with autogenerated glossary, if not you probably should.

    \usepackage[acronym]{glossaries}
    
    \makeglossaries
    
    \newacronym{MDBs}{MDBs}{Multilateral Development Banks}

If this is some acronym you will use more later, it's better to introduce it in the main text before it shows up in a table:

    In this part of research we used \gls{MDBs}, the best stuff since slice bread, see \autoref{tab:table1}. 
    
    \begin{table}[h]
        some stuff about \gls{MDBs}
    \label{tab:table1}
    \end{table}

If it is only used in this table and nowhere else there is little reason to make an acronym at all. Just spell it all out:

    \begin{table}[h]
        some stuff about Multilateral Development Banks.
    \label{tab:table1}
    \end{table}

If you really need or want to introduce the acronym in the table, it makes more sense to expand it in the caption. I don't remember how to do it in tex macro:

    \begin{table}[h]
        some stuff about Multilateral Development Banks^{1}.
    \caption[Table about stuff]{This table contains stuff. Acronyms: \gls{MDBs}, \gls{ABC}, ...}
    \label{tab:table1}
    \end{table}

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