## Workshop on the Joint IMF WB Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries

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**Canonical URL:** [Workshop on the Joint IMF WB Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2023/dsm-licat23-43)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: AT 23.43
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Dates: September 11-15, 2023 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: French
- Interpretation language: Portuguese
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Participant qualifications and target audience
- Qualifications:
  - Participants should have a degree in economics or finance.
  - Participants should have reasonably fluency in French.
  - Experience with debt sustainability analysis, or credit risk analysis would be extremely useful.
- Target Audience:
  - Ideally the candidates should be fiscal management experts responsible for macro-economic projections and broader fiscal management.
  - Officials directly involved in preparation of country debt sustainability analysis.
  - Officials involved in lending.

### Course description and curriculum focus
- 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:
  - Lectures on key features of the LIC-DSF.
  - Demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based LIC-DSF framework covering:
    - Linkages between the macroeconomic framework and debt dynamics.
    - Realism tools.
    - Stress tests.
    - Debt carrying capacity thresholds.
    - The role of judgment.
    - Determination of final ratings.

### Course objectives and learning activities
- 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:
  - Participants will have an opportunity to work through a country case study.
  - Participants will analyze the output of the LIC DSF template to better understand debt vulnerabilities.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2023/dsm-licat23-43_