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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 would be helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-27",
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    {
      "heading": "Program identity and logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 24.142\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French\n- Course duration: six-hour online course"
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - All government officials are welcome to register.\n  - Particularly useful for officials from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics would be helpful.\n  - Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
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    {
      "heading": "Course description and tool functionality",
      "content": "- Overview:\n  - Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.\n  - Explains how to project the evolution of the stock of public debt over time for the baseline (most likely) and alternative scenarios.\n  - Explains how to estimate paths of fiscal adjustments consistent with a pre-determined target level of debt.\n- Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT) features:\n  - Excel-based, easy-to-use.\n  - Uses projections of some 10 key macroeconomic and fiscal variables.\n  - Provides public debt projections under baseline and stress test scenarios.\n  - Produces fan charts that describe uncertainty.\n  - Identifies the main drivers of public debt changes.\n  - Computes measures of fiscal adjustments necessary to achieve a user-defined public debt target."
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    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- Project public debt.\n- Identify the main drivers of public debt changes.\n- Compute measures of fiscal adjustments consistent with a public debt target.\n- Conduct a stress test to public debt projections, 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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    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: French",
    "Course duration: six-hour online course",
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    "Qualifications:",
    "Overview:",
    "Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT) features:",
    "Project public debt.",
    "Identify the main drivers of public debt changes.",
    "Compute measures of fiscal adjustments consistent with a public debt target.",
    "Conduct a stress test to public debt projections, including through the use of fan charts.",
    "Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis to assess the risk of debt distress."
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