## Vulnerability Diagnostics (VDS)

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Vulnerability Diagnostics (VDS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/jv/2024/vdsjv24-13)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: JV 24.13
- Location: Vienna, Austria
- Dates: May 20-31, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Qualifications and target audience
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience.
  - A basic background in econometrics is required.
  - Familiarity with the use of software for econometric applications is required.
- Target Audience:
  - Officials of all levels in central banks, ministries of finance, and other governmental agencies with macro-fiscal units (e.g., cabinet office, parliament).
  - Officials who monitor and assess country-wide and regional multisectoral vulnerabilities and risks.

### Course description and focus
- The course complements the Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS) course.
- It aims at enhancing participants’ ability to assess fiscal, financial, and external vulnerabilities in an integrated fashion, using several diagnostic tools and methods to capture tail risks.

### Course objectives
- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:
  - Assess risks using fiscal, financial, external, and real sectors’ vulnerability indicators.
  - Describe how vulnerabilities can morph into distress, leading to crises as a result of adverse shocks or a flawed policy mix.
  - Use diagnostic tools (including tools currently employed in IMF surveillance), to track multi-sectoral vulnerabilities and predict indicators of tail risks.
  - Adapt diagnostic tools, (organized as templates of country vulnerability reports), to country data.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [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)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/jv/2024/vdsjv24-13_