In sum, the Japanese economy continues to be headed in the direction of overcoming deflation. As for the outlook, the year-on-year rate of change in the core CPI is expected to be slightly positive, reflecting the rise in international commodity prices and the narrowing of the negative output gap.
In the aftermath of the crisis, the IMF decided to introduce a new data standard, the Special Data Dissemination Standard, in order to collect additional information on the situation of its member countries and to publish this information much faster than it had been done in the past.