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  "title": "Projecting Public Debt - The Public Debt Dynamics Tool",
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  "summary": "Projecting Public Debt - The Public Debt Dynamics Tool Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2024-06-06",
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      "heading": "Program logistics and status",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 23.202\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2023 - April 15, 2024 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Status: Deadline passed\n- Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics is helpful. Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- All government officials are welcome to register.\n- Particularly useful for officials from:\n  - ministries of finance\n  - debt agencies\n  - central banks\n  - other government agencies responsible for implementing macroeconomic and debt policies"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n- Two-module online course explaining how to project the stock of public debt over time for baseline (most likely) and alternative scenarios.\n- Explains how to estimate the path of fiscal adjustments necessary to reach a pre-determined target level of debt.\n- Introduces an easy-to-use Excel-based Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT) that:\n  - uses projections of some 10 key macroeconomic and financial variables\n  - provides public debt projections under baseline and stress test scenarios\n  - produces fan charts that describe uncertainty about the evolution of debt over time in a probabilistic manner\n  - identifies the main drivers of public debt changes\n  - computes measures of fiscal adjustments necessary to achieve a public debt target during a certain period, as specified by the user"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n  - Compute public debt dynamics.\n  - Identify the main drivers of public debt dynamics.\n  - Compute measures of fiscal adjustments necessary to achieve a public debt target.\n  - Conduct a stress test to public debt dynamics, including through the use of fan charts.\n  - Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis to assess the risk of debt distress."
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    "Status: Deadline passed",
    "Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics is helpful. Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.",
    "All government officials are welcome to register.",
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    "Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.",
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