{
  "title": "Cancelled: Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries (DSF-LIC)",
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  "summary": "Back to top Cancelled: Debt Sustainability Framework for Low-Income Countries (DSF-LIC) Cancelled Session No.",
  "publishDate": "2026-05-06",
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    {
      "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 prerequisites",
      "content": "- Expected degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master's level, or equivalent work experience.\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": "- Joint IMF-World Bank workshop providing an in-depth introduction to the current debt sustainability framework for low-income countries DSF LIC implemented in July 2018.\n- Aims to 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- Sessions combine lectures on key features with demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based DS LIC framework.\n- Topics covered in demonstrations:\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",
      "content": "- 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."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Related training scheduling note",
      "content": "- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public. Click Learn more to find our current offerings."
    }
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    "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 degree in economics or finance, preferably at the master's level, or equivalent work experience.",
    "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).",
    "Joint IMF-World Bank workshop providing an in-depth introduction to the current debt sustainability framework for low-income countries DSF LIC implemented in July 2018.",
    "Aims to 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.",
    "Sessions combine lectures on key features with demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based DS LIC framework.",
    "Topics covered in demonstrations:",
    "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.",
    "IMF offers online training to government officials and the public. Click Learn more to find our current offerings."
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