Workshop on the Joint IMF WB Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries

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Qualifications:
- Participants should have a degree in economics or finance.
- Participants should have reasonably fluency in French.
- Experience with debt sustainability analysis, or credit risk analysis would be extremely useful.
Target Audience:
- Ideally the candidates should be fiscal management experts responsible for macro-economic projections and broader fiscal management.
- Officials directly involved in preparation of country debt sustainability analysis.
- Officials involved in lending.

The workshop gives an in-depth introduction to the current debt sustainability framework for low-income countries (LIC-DSF).
Focus on tools available to assist with debt sustainability in French-speaking African low-income countries.
The framework helps guide countries and donors in mobilizing the financing of LICs' development needs, while reducing the chances of an excessive build-up of debt in the future.
Sessions combine:
- Lectures on key features of the LIC-DSF.
- Demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based LIC-DSF framework covering:
- Linkages between the macroeconomic framework and debt dynamics.
- Realism tools.
- Stress tests.
- Debt carrying capacity thresholds.
- The role of judgment.
- Determination of final ratings.

Objective: The objective of the five-day workshop is to present the key features of the revised framework and provide hands-on training in the use of the new LIC DSF template.
Hands-on components:
- Participants will have an opportunity to work through a country case study.
- Participants will analyze the output of the LIC DSF template to better understand debt vulnerabilities.