Fiscal Sustainability (FS)

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• Session: JV 27.31
• Location: Vienna, Austria
• Dates: October 18-29, 2027 (2 weeks)
• Delivery method: In-person Training
• Primary language: English
• Status: Apply online by July 18, 2027

Training program overview

• Training Program offered by the IMF.
• Session No.: JV 27.31
• Location: Vienna, Austria
• Date: October 18-29, 2027 (2 weeks)
• Delivery Method: In-person Training
• Primary Language: English

Target audience and qualifications

• Target Audience:
  • Officials from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.
• Qualifications:
  • Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent work experience and some familiarity with using spreadsheets.

Course description and core tool

• The course introduces the Excel-based Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT).
• The DDT is used to:
  • Project the stock of public debt for the baseline (most likely) and alternative scenarios, including natural-disaster scenarios and fan charts.
  • Estimate paths of fiscal adjustments consistent with a user-defined target level of debt.
• Course format:
  • Participants are given preliminary data and are expected to present an analysis of the public debt situation in their country (or the country of their choice) at the end of the course.
• Application note:
  • Due to the transition to a new IMF course registration system, formal applications for the course cannot be submitted at this time; interested participants may submit details via the indicated mechanism to be notified when applications open.

Course objectives

• Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:
  • Use real data to project public debt and compute measures of fiscal adjustments consistent with a public debt target.
  • Prepare a public debt report presenting the main driver of debt changes and a stress test to public debt projections.
  • Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis.
  • Analyze the risk of public debt distress.

References

• In-person Training
• Apply Now
• Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)
• Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)
• Fiscal Sustainability (FS)
• Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)
• Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)