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  "title": "Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries",
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  "summary": "Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2025-10-27",
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      "heading": "Program logistics and target audience",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 24.141\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: English\n- 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 providing advice or implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Some knowledge of economics is helpful.\n  - Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description and scope",
      "content": "- Presented jointly by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, in collaboration with the World Bank.\n- Provides an overview of the World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC DSF).\n- Purpose of the LIC DSF:\n  - To help low-income countries achieve their development goals while minimizing the risk of debt distress.\n- Structure and topics covered:\n  - One-module online course that walks through the steps involved in applying the LIC DSF.\n  - Identification of data requirements and the \"realism tools\" used for assessing the plausibility of macroeconomic projections.\n  - Explanation of how the LIC DSF computes a country's debt-carrying capacity, which is used to determine thresholds for debt-burden indicators.\n  - Treatment of baseline and stress test scenarios: when a debt-burden indicator breaches its threshold under either the baseline or stress test scenarios, this signals risk of debt distress.\n  - Discussion of how judgment can be used to arrive at a final risk rating.\n- Intended outcome:\n  - Enable participants to interpret LIC DSF outputs presented in World Bank and IMF reports."
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    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (participant competencies upon completion)",
      "content": "- Identify data requirements for the use of the LIC DSF template.\n- Identify the steps in the production of risk ratings for low-income countries.\n- Understand the LIC DSF realism tools.\n- Interpret the LIC DSF stress test scenarios.\n- Identify how the LIC DSF computes thresholds for debt-burden indicators.\n- Understand the LIC DSF risk ratings.\n- Interpret the outputs of the debt sustainability analysis for low income countries, as presented in World Bank and IMF reports."
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    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2024 - April 15, 2025 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: English",
    "Target Audience:",
    "Qualifications:",
    "Presented jointly by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department, in collaboration with the World Bank.",
    "Provides an overview of the World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC DSF).",
    "Purpose of the LIC DSF:",
    "Structure and topics covered:",
    "Intended outcome:",
    "Identify data requirements for the use of the LIC DSF template.",
    "Identify the steps in the production of risk ratings for low-income countries.",
    "Understand the LIC DSF realism tools.",
    "Interpret the LIC DSF stress test scenarios.",
    "Identify how the LIC DSF computes thresholds for debt-burden indicators.",
    "Understand the LIC DSF risk ratings.",
    "Interpret the outputs of the debt sustainability analysis for low income countries, as presented in World Bank and IMF reports."
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