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<li>The IMF Data Standards Initiatives enhance data transparency as a global public good. Countries’ recent achievements in implementing the standards through voluntary publication of timely macroeconomic and financial data have been remarkable, despite the impact of the pandemic, with the framework continuing to serve the membership well.</li>
<li>The Tenth Review updates the framework, in light of new data priorities, through a parsimonious and principles-based expansion of encouraged data categories covering selected aspects in the areas of public debt, macro-financial indicators, foreign exchange intervention, climate change-related policy, and gender- disaggregated labor market statistics.</li>
<li>The Review also focuses on strengthening the monitoring of the first tier of the Data Standards Initiatives, the enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS), and encouraging subscribers of the second tier, the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS), to modernize data publication technology.</li>
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