Today, open and low-cost access to appropriate, timely and reliable information and analysis on emerging economies and international financial flows is of heightened importance to policy makers, investors and civil society. Despite enormous progress, serious failures persist in the information available (overload of some types and gaps in others relative to end-users’ needs), uncertain credibility of public and private sources of information and analysis (including concerns of provider bias), and inadequate timeliness compared to market and media reaction speeds. This paper, drawing on extensive research, recommends four inter-related mechanisms to bridge these costly information and analysis gaps.

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