A mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Statistics Department visited Montenegro during June 28-July 4, 2017 to collaborate with government authorities to implement the Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS). The e-GDDS was endorsed by the IMF’s Executive Board in May 2015.

 

The mission is particularly to support the development of the National Summary Data Page (NSDP), which will be hosted on the Montenegro Statistical Office website, utilizing the Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX), with links to the Central Bank and the Ministry of finance of Montenegro.

 

The NSDP aims to serve as a one-stop publication vehicle for essential macroeconomic data. Publication of essential macroeconomic data through the new NSDP will provide national policy makers and domestic and international stakeholders, including investors, with easy access to information that the IMF's Executive Board has identified as critical for monitoring economic conditions and policies. Making this information easily accessible in both human and machine-readable formats will allow all users to have simultaneous access to timely data and will bring greater data transparency.

 

The NSDP will give users access to full information about the Montenegro e-GDDS data, and will be available no later than 4th September 2017 on the Statistical Office website and also on the IMF's Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board (DSBB) at http://dsbb.imf.org. Implementation of the e-GDDS is a major statistical milestone for Montenegro. 

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.