Fiscal Sustainability (FS)

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Bibliographic details

Session: CE 26.38
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dates: November 9-20, 2026 (2 weeks)
Delivery method: In-person Training
Primary language: English
Interpretation language: Arabic
Status: Apply online by October 2, 2026 Deadline extended

Target audience and qualifications

Target audience: Officials from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.
Qualifications: Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent work experience and some familiarity with using spreadsheets.

Course logistics and languages

Session No.: CE 26.38
Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Date: November 9-20, 2026 (2 weeks) New dates
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: English
Interpretation Language: Arabic

Course description and tools

The course introduces the Excel-based Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT).
The DDT is used 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.

Course objectives and expected competencies

Upon completion, participants should be able to:
- Use real data to project public debt and compute measures of fiscal adjustments consistent with a public debt target.
- Prepare a public debt report presenting the main drivers of debt changes and a stress test to public debt projections.
- Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis.
- Analyze the risk of public debt distress.

Practical components and assessment

Participants are given preliminary data.
Participants 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.

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