Fiscal Sustainability
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Bibliographic details
- Session: CE 25.08
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Dates: February 9-20, 2025 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: Arabic
- Status: Deadline passed
Training Program and Logistics
- Session No.: CE 25.08
- Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
- Date: February 9-20, 2025 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: English
- Interpretation Language: Arabic
- Deadline passed
Qualifications and Target Audience
- Qualifications:
- Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent work experience.
- Participants are expected to have some familiarity with using spreadsheets.
- Target audience:
- All government officials are welcome to register.
- Particularly useful for officials from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.
Course Description
- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
- Introduces the easy-to-use Excel-based Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT).
- Uses the DDT to:
- Project the stock of public debt for the baseline (most likely) and alternative scenarios, including natural-disaster scenarios and fan charts.
- Estimate paths of fiscal adjustments consistent with a user-defined target level of debt.
- Participants are given preliminary data and are expected to present an analysis of the public debt situation in their country (or the country of their choice) at the end of the course.
Course Objectives
- Project public debt.
- Identify the main drivers of public debt changes.
- Compute measures of fiscal adjustments consistent with a public debt target.
- Conduct a stress test to public debt projections, including through the use of fan charts.
- Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis to assess the risk of debt distress.
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