Legal and Institutional Framework for Public Debt Management (LIDM)
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Course purpose and focus
- The course aims to familiarize participants with sound legal frameworks and institutional arrangements for sovereigns in managing their public debt and contingent liabilities.
- The course focuses on the importance of effective structures and legal frameworks that support the formulation and implementation of sound debt management policies and practices, sound governance mechanisms and enhanced debt transparency.
- Topic: Financial Sector Issues
Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
- Mid to senior-level officials, including lawyers and legal advisors, from finance ministry, treasury department, debt management offices, cash management units, and central banks.
- Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in law, economics or finance, or equivalent experience, as well as at least five years of working experience in the relevant area of public sector.
Core competencies and course objectives
- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
- Describe the roles and responsibilities of government institutions in charge of debt management and the role of central banks as fiscal agents.
- Analyze the different forms in the design of debt management offices and the organizational structure required for debt management operations.
- Identify the key components of a sound public debt management legal and operational framework, including:
- public debt management objectives,
- scope of public debt,
- authority, purposes and constraints to borrow,
- borrowing by public entities,
- contingent liabilities,
- monitoring, accountability arrangements and sanctions regime.
- Describe the legal mechanisms for coordination between public debt management and fiscal, monetary and financial policy frameworks and operations.
- Describe the entities responsible for public debt transparency and formulate recommendations on how to strengthen the legal and institutional frameworks to enhance disclosure of public debt data and debt management operations.
Delivery modes and example offerings
- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public.
- Example in-person and blended training listings:
- Executive Training 2 on Fiscal Policy Considerations (FPA) — English | November 29, 2026 - December 3, 2026 | In-person Training | Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Tax Regional Workshop on Strategic Management — English (Arabic) | November 29, 2026 - December 3, 2026 | In-person Training | Kuwait city, Kuwait
- Institutional Sector Accounts-Advanced - Blended (ISA-A) — English | February 1-12, 2027 | Blended Training | Washington, D.C., United States
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