Fiscal Sustainability (FS)
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- Published: July 18, 2025
Upcoming offerings
| Start date | End date | Location | Delivery Method | Session No. | Primary & (Interpretation) language | Apply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 9, 2026 | November 20, 2026 | Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates | [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods) | CE 26.38 | English (Arabic) | [Apply online](https://www-ins.imf.org/TAS/signon.aspx?pkey=CE26.38E) by October 2, 2026 |
| October 18, 2027 | October 29, 2027 | Vienna, Austria | [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods) | JV 27.31 | English | [Apply online](https://www-ins.imf.org/TAS/signon.aspx?pkey=CE26.38E) by July 18, 2027 |
Course overview
- The Training Program Course introduces the easy-to-use Excel-based Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT).
- The course explains how to use the DDT for projecting the stock of public debt for the baseline (most likely) and alternative scenarios, including natural-disaster scenarios and fan charts.
- The DDT is used to estimate paths of fiscal adjustments consistent with a user-defined target level of debt.
- Participants are given preliminary data and are expected to present an analysis of the public debt situation in their country (or the country of their choice) at the end of the course.
Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
- Officials from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.
- Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent work experience and some familiarity with using spreadsheets.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Use real data to project public debt and compute measures of fiscal adjustments consistent with a public debt target.
- Prepare a public debt report presenting the main driver of debt changes and a stress test to public debt projections.
- Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis.
- Analyze the risk of public debt distress.
Methods, tools, and expected outputs
- Methods and tools:
- Excel-based Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT) for baseline and alternative scenario projections, natural-disaster scenarios, and fan charts.
- Expected participant outputs:
- An analysis and presentation of the public debt situation for a selected country using preliminary data.
- Estimates of fiscal-adjustment paths consistent with user-defined debt targets.
- A public debt report including drivers of debt changes and stress-test results.