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  "title": "Senegal Subscribes to the IMF’s Special Data Dissemination Standard",
  "publication": "IMF News, November 20, 2017",
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  "summary": "Press Release No. 17/451",
  "publishDate": "2017-11-20",
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      "heading": "Key developments",
      "content": "- Press Release No. 17/451\n- Date: November 20, 2017\n- Senegal subscribed to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).\n- Senegal became \"the fourth country in Sub-Saharan African to reach this goal.\"\n- Senegal is \"the very first country to graduate from the enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS).\""
    },
    {
      "heading": "Institutional roles and contacts",
      "content": "- Announcement by: IMF Communications Department, MEDIA RELATIONS\n- PRESS OFFICER: Pemba Sherpa\n- Phone and contact: +1 202 623-7100Email: MEDIA@IMF.org\n- IMF Statistics Department Director quoted: Mr. Louis Marc Ducharme (in Dakar for the official announcement)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Support and funding for Senegal’s data transition",
      "content": "- Benefited from support by the Department for International Development (DFID) Enhanced Data Dissemination Initiative, financed by the government of the United Kingdom.\n- Received funding from the African Development Bank to build and maintain the open data platform that allows machine-to-machine data transmission."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Significance and expected benefits",
      "content": "- Subscription to the SDDS \"represents a major step forward for official statistics in the country and for those who use these data,\" said Mr. Louis Marc Ducharme.\n- The subscription \"underscores Senegal’s strong commitment to transparency, as well as the adoption of internationally accepted best practices in statistics.\"\n- SDDS enhances availability of timely statistics according to an advance release calendar, contributing to sound macroeconomic policies and the proper functioning of financial markets."
    },
    {
      "heading": "About the SDDS and dissemination practices",
      "content": "- SDDS established by the IMF in March 1996.\n- Subscription is voluntary; a subscribing member commits to observe the standard and to provide information (metadata) to the IMF about its data dissemination practices.\n- Metadata are made publicly available on the IMF's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB)."
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    {
      "heading": "Data access and national arrangements",
      "content": "- The DSBB provides comprehensive documentation in English on the statistical practices of Senegal for SDDS data categories, hyperlinked to country data included in the National Summary Data Page.\n- The National Summary Data Page is maintained by Senegal’s Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD).\n- Senegal’s SDDS information is available at http://dsbb.imf.org/Pages/SDDS/CountryList.aspx.\n\nPress Release No. 17/451, November 20, 2017, IMF Communications Department.\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Senegal and the IMF\n- United Kingdom and the IMF\n- Special Data Dissemination Standard\n- Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board\n- Press Releases\n- PRESS CENTER\n- Special Data Dissemination Standard\n- http://dsbb.imf.org/Pages/SDDS/CountryList.aspx\n- https://www.imf.org/en/home\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2017/11/20/pr17451-senegal-subscribes-to-sdds"
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    "Published: November 20, 2017",
    "Press Release No. 17/451",
    "Date: November 20, 2017",
    "Senegal subscribed to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS).",
    "Senegal became \"the fourth country in Sub-Saharan African to reach this goal.\"",
    "Senegal is \"the very first country to graduate from the enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS).\"",
    "Announcement by: IMF Communications Department, MEDIA RELATIONS",
    "PRESS OFFICER: Pemba Sherpa",
    "Phone and contact: +1 202 623-7100Email: MEDIA@IMF.org",
    "IMF Statistics Department Director quoted: Mr. Louis Marc Ducharme (in Dakar for the official announcement).",
    "Benefited from support by the Department for International Development (DFID) Enhanced Data Dissemination Initiative, financed by the government of the United Kingdom.",
    "Received funding from the African Development Bank to build and maintain the open data platform that allows machine-to-machine data transmission.",
    "Subscription to the SDDS \"represents a major step forward for official statistics in the country and for those who use these data,\" said Mr. Louis Marc Ducharme.",
    "The subscription \"underscores Senegal’s strong commitment to transparency, as well as the adoption of internationally accepted best practices in statistics.\"",
    "SDDS enhances availability of timely statistics according to an advance release calendar, contributing to sound macroeconomic policies and the proper functioning of financial markets.",
    "SDDS established by the IMF in March 1996.",
    "Subscription is voluntary; a subscribing member commits to observe the standard and to provide information (metadata) to the IMF about its data dissemination practices.",
    "Metadata are made publicly available on the IMF's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB).",
    "The DSBB provides comprehensive documentation in English on the statistical practices of Senegal for SDDS data categories, hyperlinked to country data included in the National Summary Data Page.",
    "The National Summary Data Page is maintained by Senegal’s Agence Nationale de la Statistique et de la Démographie (ANSD).",
    "Senegal’s SDDS information is available at http://dsbb.imf.org/Pages/SDDS/CountryList.aspx.",
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