Public Debt Sustainability and Debt Restructuring (DSDR)

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• Published: October 6, 2025

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Course overview

• Provides guidance on assessing debt sustainability and mitigating debt risks.
• Offers insights into the sovereign debt restructuring process, including the role and policies of the IMF.
• Includes presentations of outside experts with practical sovereign debt experience and other institutions with applicable expertise and capacity development roles, such as the African Development Bank's African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) and World Bank.
• Encourages peer learning.

Topic and thematic focus

• Legal and Institutional Frameworks
• Debt sustainability analysis tools and methodologies
• Best practices in sovereign debt management
• Principles and frameworks for sovereign debt restructuring, including past country experiences
• IMF role and mandate in sovereign debt restructuring

Target audience

• Mid- to senior-level officials from ministries of finance, central banks, debt management units, and other interested government institutions with responsibility for public debt-related matters.

Qualifications for participants

• Expected to have a degree in law, economics or finance or equivalent work experience.
• Good quantitative skills.
• Proficiency in the use of computers to analyze data.

Course objectives (learning outcomes)

• Better understanding of tools for debt sustainability analysis.
• Better understanding of best practices in sovereign debt management.
• Better understanding of principles and frameworks for sovereign debt restructuring, including past country experiences.
• Better understanding of the role and mandate of the IMF as it relates to sovereign debt restructuring.

References

• In-person Training
• AT 27.08