You have a ready audience that our website will never be able to rival. The advantage of our website is that it creates an expanded and direct communications channel between the Bank and its publics. Also, while in the media, the message is mediated and the quality and accuracy are beyond our control.
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.