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  "title": "Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries",
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  "summary": "The framework helps guide countries and donors in mobilizing the financing of LICs development needs while reducing the chances of an excessive buildup of debt in the future.",
  "publishDate": "2026-05-18",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- The training program is a joint IMF-World Bank workshop that gives an in-depth introduction to the current debt sustainability framework for low-income countries DSF LIC implemented in July 2018.\n- The framework helps guide countries and donors in mobilizing the financing of LICs development needs while reducing the chances of an excessive buildup of debt in the future.\n- Sessions combine lectures on key features with demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based DS LIC framework covering:\n  - linkages between the macroeconomic framework and debt dynamics\n  - realism tools\n  - stress tests\n  - debt carrying capacity thresholds\n  - the role of judgment\n  - the determination of final ratings"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Officials in low-income countries and targeted staff from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for providing advice or implementing macroeconomic and debt policies."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Qualifications",
      "content": "- Participants are expected to have:\n  - a degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master's level, or equivalent work experience\n  - good quantitative skills\n  - proficiency in the use of computers to analyze data\n  - familiarity with the basics of Microsoft Excel, as many workshops use Excel worksheets"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n- Describe why fiscal sustainability is central to macroeconomic stability and sustainable growth.\n- Apply effective concepts, definitions, and techniques for analyzing fiscal sustainability.\n- Prepare a risk-based DSA for a low-income country."
    }
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    "The framework helps guide countries and donors in mobilizing the financing of LICs development needs while reducing the chances of an excessive buildup of debt in the future.",
    "Sessions combine lectures on key features with demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based DS LIC framework covering:",
    "Officials in low-income countries and targeted staff from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for providing advice or implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.",
    "Participants are expected to have:",
    "Describe why fiscal sustainability is central to macroeconomic stability and sustainable growth.",
    "Apply effective concepts, definitions, and techniques for analyzing fiscal sustainability.",
    "Prepare a risk-based DSA for a low-income country."
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