South Africa was one of the first countries to subscribe to the Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in August 1996, and is now one of only eight countries that provide electronic links (hyperlinks) from the IMF’s SDDS to the more comprehensive sites of important South African economic data and information.
Considerable judgment must always be applied, and no one measure should be relied on exclusively. Second, globalization may affect the degree and speed of the pass-through of exchange rate movements to domestic prices.