## Canceled: Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries - LIC DSF

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**Canonical URL:** [Canceled: Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries - LIC DSF](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2024/dsf-licat24-30)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: AT 24.30
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Dates: September 30, 2024 - October 4, 2024 (1 week)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: Portuguese

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### Status and Logistics
- Event status: Cancelled
- 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

### Target Audience
- 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.

### Qualifications and Participant Skills
- Expected academic background: a degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master's level, or equivalent work experience.
- Required skills:
  - Good quantitative skills.
  - Proficiency in the use of computers to analyze data.
  - Familiarity with the basics of Microsoft Excel (many workshops use Microsoft Excel worksheets).

### Course Description
- 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.
- Technical modules covered:
  - 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
- Upon completion, participants should be able to:
  - Describe why fiscal sustainability is central to macroeconomic stability and sustainable growth.
  - Apply effective concepts, definitions, and techniques for analyzing fiscal sustainability.
  - Prepare a risk-based DSA for a low-income country.

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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)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2024/dsf-licat24-30_