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  "summary": "Experience with debt sustainability analysis, or credit risk analysis would be extremely useful.",
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      "content": "- Session No.: CT 20.12 V\n- Location: Beijing, China\n- Date: December 4-18, 2020 (2 weeks)\n- Primary Language: English\n- Status: Deadline passed\n- Delivery mode: Conducted via WebEx platform\n- Technical requirements:\n  - Reliable broadband is required\n  - A device with either the WebEx desktop application or a Google Chrome web browser is essential\n  - A computer is recommended to fully benefit from the lectures and exercises"
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      "content": "- Qualifications:\n  - Participants should have a degree in economics or finance\n  - Experience with debt sustainability analysis, or credit risk analysis would be extremely useful\n- Target audience:\n  - Officials in Eximbank or CDB directly involved in lending decisions (loan officers, credit risk analysts)\n  - Officials in the PBoC engaged in designing swap arrangements in EMs/LICs\n  - Officials from NDRC, China Export and Credit Insurance Corp, CIDCA, and other agencies engaged in lending/aid\n  - Officials in the Ministries of Commerce, Foreign Affairs, and Finance overseeing lending/aid to EMs/LICs\n  - Officials from borrowing countries responsible for macroeconomic and fiscal/budget projections"
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      "content": "- Overview:\n  - Presents an overview of the tools available to assist with debt sustainability analysis, with a special focus on how to use them to assess cases where debt is not sustainable and resolution is needed\n  - Covers the global architecture for debt resolution, when this is necessary\n- Topics covered:\n  - Defining public debt, and assessing contingent risks that exist due to gaps in data\n  - Macro forecasting and realism (with close attention to investment-growth linkages)\n  - Determination of a country's debt carrying capacity (both external and total debt)\n  - Categorizing risks for external and total debt, and qualifying them\n  - Thinking about sustainability\n  - Different approaches to restoring sustainability\n  - The international architecture for debt resolution, and IMF's policies when dealing with countries in a debt resolution situations"
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