Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (DSF-LIC)

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Event: Training Program — Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (DSF-LIC).
Session No.: CE 27.15.
Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Date: April 25-29, 2027 (1 week).
Delivery Method: In-person Training.
Primary Language: English.

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:
- Expected to have a 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, since many workshops use Microsoft Excel worksheets.

The workshop is a joint IMF-World Bank offering that gives an in-depth introduction to the current debt sustainability framework for low-income countries DSF LIC.
The DSF LIC was implemented in July 2018.
The framework helps 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.
- Demonstrations of the modules of the excel-based DS LIC framework covering:
- Linkages between the macroeconomic framework and debt dynamics.
- Realism tools.
- Stress tests.
- Debt carrying capacity thresholds.
- The role of judgment.
- The determination of final ratings.

Upon completion of the course, 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.