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  "title": "IMF Workshop on Debt Sustainability and Debt Management for Low-Income Countries - Cancelled",
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  "summary": "Experience with debt sustainability analysis, or credit risk analysis would be extremely useful.",
  "publishDate": "2020-10-24",
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      "heading": "Event details and target audience",
      "content": "- Status: Cancelled\n- Session No.: CT 20.01\n- Location: Dalian, China\n- Date: February 24, 2020 - March 5, 2020 (2 weeks)\n- Primary Language: English\n- Qualifications: Participants should have a degree in economics or finance. 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"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course scope and analytical focus",
      "content": "- The course was presented by the IMF's Strategy, Policy, and Review Department and provided a comprehensive overview of tools for debt sustainability analysis with particular emphasis on assessing proposals to scale up investment.\n- Core analytical areas covered:\n  - Determination of a country's debt carrying capacity (both external and total debt)\n  - Checking forecasts for realism, with close attention to investment-growth linkages\n  - Assessing contingent risks arising from gaps in data on total public debt\n  - Examining risks posed by shocks (natural disasters, commodity prices, market exposures)\n  - Incorporating other factors that could influence debt outcomes (assets, private debt, etc.)\n  - Categorizing risks for external and total debt, and qualifying them\n  - Thinking about fiscal space for borrowing\n  - The IMF's Debt limits policy and international agreements on structuring lending\n  - How different approaches to financing investment could impact assessments\n  - Thinking about sustainability"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Debt resolution, creditor frameworks, and IMF policies",
      "content": "- Coverage of global architecture for debt resolution, including:\n  - The process of private debt resolution\n  - The process for resolution of official debt at the Paris Club\n  - Creditor type and hierarchy\n  - Typical solutions deployed by negotiators in restructuring situations\n- IMF policies and frameworks addressed:\n  - The IMF's policies when dealing with countries in a debt resolution situation, including:\n    - The lending framework for exceptional access\n    - The financing assurance policy\n    - The lending into arrears policy"
    },
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      "heading": "Practical training components and methods",
      "content": "- Lectures complemented by hands-on exercises using the IMF/WB debt sustainability templates.\n- Group work to consider scenarios and their implications for the evolution of debt vulnerabilities, and options to mitigate risks.\n- Inclusion of a case study on a debt resolution."
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    "Status: Cancelled",
    "Session No.: CT 20.01",
    "Location: Dalian, China",
    "Date: February 24, 2020 - March 5, 2020 (2 weeks)",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "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:",
    "The course was presented by the IMF's Strategy, Policy, and Review Department and provided a comprehensive overview of tools for debt sustainability analysis with particular emphasis on assessing proposals to scale up investment.",
    "Core analytical areas covered:",
    "Coverage of global architecture for debt resolution, including:",
    "IMF policies and frameworks addressed:",
    "Lectures complemented by hands-on exercises using the IMF/WB debt sustainability templates.",
    "Group work to consider scenarios and their implications for the evolution of debt vulnerabilities, and options to mitigate risks.",
    "Inclusion of a case study on a debt resolution."
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