## Economic Data Dissemination: What Influences Country Performanceon Frequency and Timiliness?

_IMF Working Papers, November 1, 2001_

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Mehmet Agça, Peter Allum
- Published: November 1, 2001
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451858631.001

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### Summary
- Despite initial improvements in macroeconomic data dissemination following the emerging markets crises of the late-1990s, large differences among countries remain.
- The paper develops measures of the frequency and timeliness of macroeconomic data dissemination for 180 countries.
- After discussing potential factors influencing data dissemination, the paper confirms the importance of a range of economic, social, and demographic factors.
- The relative importance of these factors in different regions is discussed, as well as the broader policy implications for strengthening macroeconomic data dissemination.

### Key findings and implications
- Developed measures of data dissemination performance cover frequency and timeliness for 180 countries.
- A range of economic, social, and demographic factors are confirmed as important determinants of data dissemination performance.
- There are large cross-country differences in dissemination despite post–late-1990s improvements.
- The relative importance of determinants varies by region.
- Broader policy implications focus on strengthening macroeconomic data dissemination (no specific policy prescriptions given on the landing page).

### Subject and keywords
- Subject: Data dissemination, Data processing, Economic and financial statistics, Financial markets, International capital markets
- Keywords: BRO economy, country, Data dissemination, data frequency index, Data processing, East Asia, economic statistics, economy, International capital markets, Latin American economy, macroeconomic data dissemination, Middle East, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, transition economy, transparency, Western Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere economy, WP

*IMF Working Papers — Economic Data Dissemination: What Influences Country Performanceon Frequency and Timiliness? By Mehmet Agça, Peter Allum. November 1, 2001.*

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