## Virtual : DSA and IMF Policies Workshop

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: CT 20.12V
- Location: Beijing, China
- Dates: December 4-18, 2020 (2 weeks)
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Event details and logistics
- Session No.: CT 20.12 V
- Location: Beijing, China
- Date: December 4-18, 2020 (2 weeks)
- Primary Language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
- Delivery mode: Conducted via WebEx platform
- Technical requirements:
  - Reliable broadband is required
  - A device with either the WebEx desktop application or a Google Chrome web browser is essential
  - A computer is recommended to fully benefit from the lectures and exercises

### Target audience and qualifications
- Qualifications:
  - Participants should have a degree in economics or finance
  - Experience with debt sustainability analysis, or credit risk analysis would be extremely useful
- Target audience:
  - Officials in Eximbank or CDB directly involved in lending decisions (loan officers, credit risk analysts)
  - Officials in the PBoC engaged in designing swap arrangements in EMs/LICs
  - Officials from NDRC, China Export and Credit Insurance Corp, CIDCA, and other agencies engaged in lending/aid
  - Officials in the Ministries of Commerce, Foreign Affairs, and Finance overseeing lending/aid to EMs/LICs
  - Officials from borrowing countries responsible for macroeconomic and fiscal/budget projections

### Course description and substantive topics
- Overview:
  - 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
  - Covers the global architecture for debt resolution, when this is necessary
- Topics covered:
  - Defining public debt, and assessing contingent risks that exist due to gaps in data
  - Macro forecasting and realism (with close attention to investment-growth linkages)
  - Determination of a country's debt carrying capacity (both external and total debt)
  - Categorizing risks for external and total debt, and qualifying them
  - Thinking about sustainability
  - Different approaches to restoring sustainability
  - The international architecture for debt resolution, and IMF's policies when dealing with countries in a debt resolution situations

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## References

- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2020/dsact20-12v_