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  "title": "Workshop on the Joint IMF WB Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries",
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  "summary": "Experience with debt sustainability analysis, or credit risk analysis would be extremely useful.",
  "publishDate": "2023-09-19",
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    {
      "heading": "Participant qualifications and target audience",
      "content": "- Qualifications:\n  - Participants should have a degree in economics or finance.\n  - Participants should have reasonably fluency in French.\n  - Experience with debt sustainability analysis, or credit risk analysis would be extremely useful.\n- Target Audience:\n  - Ideally the candidates should be fiscal management experts responsible for macro-economic projections and broader fiscal management.\n  - Officials directly involved in preparation of country debt sustainability analysis.\n  - Officials involved in lending."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and curriculum focus",
      "content": "- The workshop gives an in-depth introduction to the current debt sustainability framework for low-income countries (LIC-DSF).\n- Focus on tools available to assist with debt sustainability in French-speaking African low-income countries.\n- The framework helps guide countries and donors in mobilizing the financing of LICs' development needs, while reducing the chances of an excessive build-up of debt in the future.\n- Sessions combine:\n  - Lectures on key features of the LIC-DSF.\n  - Demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based LIC-DSF 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    - Determination of final ratings."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives and learning activities",
      "content": "- Objective: The objective of the five-day workshop is to present the key features of the revised framework and provide hands-on training in the use of the new LIC DSF template.\n- Hands-on components:\n  - Participants will have an opportunity to work through a country case study.\n  - Participants will analyze the output of the LIC DSF template to better understand debt vulnerabilities."
    }
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    "Qualifications:",
    "Target Audience:",
    "The workshop gives an in-depth introduction to the current debt sustainability framework for low-income countries (LIC-DSF).",
    "Focus on tools available to assist with debt sustainability in French-speaking African low-income countries.",
    "The framework helps guide countries and donors in mobilizing the financing of LICs' development needs, while reducing the chances of an excessive build-up of debt in the future.",
    "Sessions combine:",
    "Objective: The objective of the five-day workshop is to present the key features of the revised framework and provide hands-on training in the use of the new LIC DSF template.",
    "Hands-on components:"
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