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Fiscal Sustainability (FS)
Invitation
Session No.: CT 19.09
Location: Dalian, China New location
Date: September 2-12, 2019 (1 week) New dates
Primary Language: English
Target Audience
Qualifications
Course Description
This course, presented by the IMF Institute for Capacity Development, looks at fiscal sustainability as a requirement for macroeconomic stability and sustainable and inclusive long-term growth. It provides a thorough overview of how to assess fiscal sustainability from a policy and tools perspective. It discusses fiscal risks and the early warning indicators used by the IMF and covers debt crises, debt management strategies, contingent liabilities, and long-term fiscal challenges.
Course Objectives
- Describe why fiscal sustainability is central to macroeconomic stability and sustainable growth.
- Apply effective concepts, definitions, and techniques for analyzing fiscal sustainability.
- Identify near- and long-term risks and fiscal vulnerabilities.
- Analyze crisis and fiscal adjustment cases.
- Differentiate various debt sustainability analysis (DSA) frameworks.
- Prepare a risk-based public DSA for a country with access to financial markets.
Balance Sheets and Accumulation Accounts (BSAA)
English (Russian), September 28, 2020 - October 9, 2020, Vienna, Austria
Apply online by July 12, 2020
Model-Based Monetary Policy Analysis and Forecasting (MPAF)
English, October 12-23, 2020, Singapore, Singapore
Apply online by July 15, 2020