Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH)
SDMX-ML implementation
Forty-first session of the Statistical Commission
New York, 23 - 26 February 2010
by Ibrahim Levent, the World Bank
The Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH)—jointly developed by the Bank for International
Settlements, 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 debtor sources.
Joint External Debt Hub (JEDH)
 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) as an SDMX pilot project.
 Brings together external debt data and selected foreign assets
from international creditor/market and national debtor sources.
The JEDH replaces the Joint BIS-IMF-OECD-WB Statistics on
External Debt, a website that was launched in 1999 to provide
international data, mainly from creditor sources, on the external
debt of developing and transition countries and territories.
 Currently being expanded to disseminate Paris Club aid and
IMF SDR allocations data

Visit
www.jedh.org
Architecture
Uses SDMX registry concept
BIS
data
IMF
data
BIS SDMXML
Posted at URL
on the web
IMF SDMXML
Posted at URL
on the web
OECD
data
OECD SDMXML
Posted at URL
on the web
World
Bank data
WB SDMXML
Posted at URL
on the web
JEDH
registry
Hosted by
OECD:
BIS url
IMF url
OECD url
WB url
JEDH website
(hosted by WB)
SDMX – ML process flow
SDMX-ML Tool
Launch App
Browse and
choose XML file
Enter known
XML URL
Access Web
Registry
Save XML File
to hard disk
Choose category,
Dated XML URL
Preview XML
data
Upload data to
Database
Stop App
World Wide Web
DDP Reports
Application database settings…
Registry access settings…
Choose existing XML file
Enter/select known URL
Choose category from registry
JEDH registry ..
http://sdmxsvr1.oecd.org/Security/datasetregistration/Registry.html
Registration screen ..
Select proper URL for XML
Download XML file to network drive
Either preview or process XML file
Preview XML in raw format
Preview XML in tabular format
Process XML and upload to database
Finished data processing
DDP site internal to WB
Data available for World Wide Web
 Thank you…