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  "title": "Canceled: Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries - LIC DSF",
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  "summary": "Canceled: Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries - LIC DSF Training Program Canceled: Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries - LIC DSF (DSF-LIC) Cancelled Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2024-06-12",
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      "heading": "Status and Logistics",
      "content": "- Event status: Cancelled\n- Session No.: AT 24.30\n- Location: Ebene, Mauritius\n- Date: September 30, 2024 - October 4, 2024 (1 week)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: Portuguese"
    },
    {
      "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 and Participant Skills",
      "content": "- Expected academic background: a degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master's level, or equivalent work experience.\n- Required skills:\n  - Good quantitative skills.\n  - Proficiency in the use of computers to analyze data.\n  - Familiarity with the basics of Microsoft Excel (many workshops use Microsoft Excel worksheets)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course Description",
      "content": "- Nature: Joint IMF-World Bank workshop.\n- Subject focus: In-depth introduction to the current debt sustainability framework for low-income countries (DSF LIC) implemented in July 2018.\n- Purpose: To help 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- Instructional approach: Sessions combine lectures on key features with demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based DS LIC framework.\n- Technical modules covered:\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."
    },
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      "heading": "Course Objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion, 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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    "Session No.: AT 24.30",
    "Location: Ebene, Mauritius",
    "Date: September 30, 2024 - October 4, 2024 (1 week)",
    "Delivery Method: In-person Training",
    "Primary Language: Portuguese",
    "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.",
    "Expected academic background: a degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master's level, or equivalent work experience.",
    "Required skills:",
    "Nature: Joint IMF-World Bank workshop.",
    "Subject focus: In-depth introduction to the current debt sustainability framework for low-income countries (DSF LIC) implemented in July 2018.",
    "Purpose: To help 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.",
    "Instructional approach: Sessions combine lectures on key features with demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based DS LIC framework.",
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    "Upon completion, participants should be able to:"
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