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  "title": "Assessing the General Data Dissemination System-What Has Been Accomplished After Ten Years, and Where Do We Go From Here?",
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      "content": "- Reviews the role of the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS) in helping developing and emerging market countries improve the dissemination of macroeconomic and sociodemographic data.\n- Considers whether the GDDS, in the way it was designed about a decade ago and enhanced along the way, has fulfilled its purpose.\n- Considers whether the GDDS remains relevant to its current and prospective members, given:\n  - ongoing global integration,\n  - increasing emphasis on transparency and governance mechanisms,\n  - and increased reliance on the Internet and electronic data transmission."
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      "content": "- Has the GDDS fulfilled its original purpose as designed about a decade ago and through subsequent enhancements?\n- Does the GDDS remain relevant to current and prospective members in light of:\n  - greater global integration,\n  - stronger demands for transparency and governance,\n  - growing reliance on Internet-based and electronic dissemination of data?"
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      "heading": "Purpose and scope (as described)",
      "content": "- Focus on dissemination improvements for macroeconomic data.\n- Focus on dissemination improvements for sociodemographic data.\n- Assessment spans initial design features and enhancements implemented over roughly ten years."
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    "Considers whether the GDDS, in the way it was designed about a decade ago and enhanced along the way, has fulfilled its purpose.",
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    "Focus on dissemination improvements for macroeconomic data.",
    "Focus on dissemination improvements for sociodemographic data.",
    "Assessment spans initial design features and enhancements implemented over roughly ten years.",
    "Publication type: Policy Papers (web landing page).",
    "Publication date: January 11, 2008.",
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