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  "title": "Uzbekistan Implements the IMF’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System",
  "publication": "IMF News, May 3, 2018",
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  "summary": "Press Release No. 18/153",
  "publishDate": "2018-05-03",
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      "heading": "Key publication details",
      "content": "- Press Release No. 18/153\n- May 3, 2018\n- IMF Communications Department\n- MEDIA RELATIONS\n- PRESS OFFICER: Pemba Sherpa\n- Phone: +1 202 623-7100\n- Email: MEDIA@IMF.org"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Implementation of the e-GDDS",
      "content": "- Uzbekistan has implemented the recommendations of the Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS).\n- Critical macroeconomic and financial data are published through the National Summary Data Page (NSDP).\n- The NSDP is posted on the State Statistics Committee’s website and utilizes the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX).\n- The NSDP is accessible on the IMF’s Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board at http://dsbb.imf.org."
    },
    {
      "heading": "NSDP content and publication approach",
      "content": "- The NSDP contains links to statistics published by official data producers:\n  - State Statistics Committee\n  - Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan\n  - Ministry of Finance\n- The NSDP aims to serve as a one-stop publication vehicle for essential macroeconomic data in both human and machine-readable formats.\n- Publication according to an Advance Release Calendar is highlighted to allow simultaneous access to timely data."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Technical assistance and financing",
      "content": "- Technical assistance to finalize the metadata published on the NSDP was financed by the Swiss Federal Department of Finance."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Benefits, implications, and endorsement",
      "content": "- Publication of essential macroeconomic data through the NSDP is described as a welcome step towards greater transparency.\n- Expected beneficiaries:\n  - National policy makers\n  - Domestic and international stakeholders, including investors and rating agencies\n- Making information easily accessible in both human and machine-readable formats and according to an Advance Release Calendar will allow all users to have simultaneous access to timely data.\n- Louis Marc Ducharme, Director of the IMF’s Statistics Department, welcomed the milestone and stated: “I am confident that Uzbekistan will benefit from using the e-GDDS as a framework for further development of its statistical system.”"
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      "heading": "Background on the e-GDDS",
      "content": "- The e-GDDS was established by the IMF’s Executive Board in May 2015 to support improved data transparency, encourage statistical development, and help create synergies between data dissemination and surveillance.\n- The e-GDDS supersedes the GDDS, which was established in 1997.\n- The release refers to a short video that gives a broad overview of the benefits of the e-GDDS.\n\nSource: Uzbekistan Implements the IMF’s Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (Press Release No. 18/153, May 3, 2018).\n\n---\n\n\n References\n\n- Republic of Uzbekistan and the IMF\n- General Data Dissemination System\n- Press Releases\n- PRESS CENTER\n- http://dsbb.imf.org\n- metadata\n- video\n- https://www.imf.org/en/home\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/news/articles/2018/05/03/pr18153-uzbekistan-implements-the-imf-enhanced-general-data-dissemination-system"
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    "Published: May 3, 2018",
    "Press Release No. 18/153",
    "May 3, 2018",
    "IMF Communications Department",
    "MEDIA RELATIONS",
    "PRESS OFFICER: Pemba Sherpa",
    "Phone: +1 202 623-7100",
    "Email: MEDIA@IMF.org",
    "Uzbekistan has implemented the recommendations of the Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS).",
    "Critical macroeconomic and financial data are published through the National Summary Data Page (NSDP).",
    "The NSDP is posted on the State Statistics Committee’s website and utilizes the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX).",
    "The NSDP is accessible on the IMF’s Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board at http://dsbb.imf.org.",
    "The NSDP contains links to statistics published by official data producers:",
    "The NSDP aims to serve as a one-stop publication vehicle for essential macroeconomic data in both human and machine-readable formats.",
    "Publication according to an Advance Release Calendar is highlighted to allow simultaneous access to timely data.",
    "Technical assistance to finalize the metadata published on the NSDP was financed by the Swiss Federal Department of Finance.",
    "Publication of essential macroeconomic data through the NSDP is described as a welcome step towards greater transparency.",
    "Expected beneficiaries:",
    "Making information easily accessible in both human and machine-readable formats and according to an Advance Release Calendar will allow all users to have simultaneous access to timely data.",
    "Louis Marc Ducharme, Director of the IMF’s Statistics Department, welcomed the milestone and stated: “I am confident that Uzbekistan will benefit from using the e-GDDS as a framework for further development of its statistical system.”",
    "The e-GDDS was established by the IMF’s Executive Board in May 2015 to support improved data transparency, encourage statistical development, and help create synergies between data dissemination and surveillance.",
    "The e-GDDS supersedes the GDDS, which was established in 1997.",
    "The release refers to a short video that gives a broad overview of the benefits of the e-GDDS.",
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