The Joint
External Debt Hub (JEDH)—jointly developed by the
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
(OECD) and the
World Bank (WB)—brings together external debt data and
selected foreign assets from international creditor/market
and national sources.
The JEDH
replaces the Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-WB Statistics on External
Debt, a website that was launched in 1999
by the
four international institutions
to provide
international data, mainly from creditor sources, on the
external debt of developing and transition countries and
territories. The JEDH disseminates an expanded range of
creditor/market data series on the external debt and
selected foreign assets of developed, developing and
transition countries and territories.
The
creditor/market data are complemented in the JEDH by series
from the World Bank’s
Quarterly External Debt Database, which disseminates
detailed external debt data that
are published individually by countries that subscribe to
the IMF’s
Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) and
General Data Dissemination System (GDDS).
The JEDH also features creditor/market- and national-based
data comparisons of countries’ external debt, and provides
users with access to metadata. Data are updated on a
quarterly basis.
As a
pilot project of the
Statistical Data and
Metadata Exchange (SDMX), JEDH applies
technological innovation to the context and content of
information being exchanged with the aim of generating
efficiencies through the convergence of data flows into a
common framework. Participating agencies also view the JEDH
as a mechanism for enhancing the transparency, timeliness
and availability of external debt statistics to a global
user community. JEDH is a product of the Inter-Agency Task
Force on Finance Statistics that produced the
External Debt Statistics:
Guide for Compilers and Users.
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