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  "title": "Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Some knowledge of economics would be helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2026-02-17",
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    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - 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 would be helpful.\n  - Basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential."
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      "heading": "Course logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 26.119\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: Spanish"
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    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and structure",
      "content": "- Overview:\n  - The course provides an overview of the World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC DSF).\n  - The LIC DSF was developed by the IMF and the World Bank (WB) to help low-income countries achieve their development goals while minimizing the risk of debt distress.\n- Structure and modules:\n  - Identification of data requirements and the \"realism tools\" used for assessing the plausibility of macroeconomic projections.\n  - How the LIC DSF computes a country's debt-carrying capacity, which is used for determining thresholds for debt-burden indicators.\n  - Analysis 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  - Use of judgment to arrive at a final risk rating.\n- Intended outcome:\n  - Enables participants to understand and interpret LIC DSF outputs presented in WB and IMF reports."
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      "heading": "Course objectives — competencies on completion",
      "content": "- Identify data requirements for the use of the LIC DSF template.\n- Identify the steps in the production of debt risk ratings for low-income countries.\n- Analyze 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- Interpret the outputs of the debt sustainability analysis for low-income countries, as presented in WB and IMF reports."
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    "Session No.: OL 26.119",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: Spanish",
    "Overview:",
    "Structure and modules:",
    "Intended outcome:",
    "Identify data requirements for the use of the LIC DSF template.",
    "Identify the steps in the production of debt risk ratings for low-income countries.",
    "Analyze the LIC DSF realism tools.",
    "Interpret the LIC DSF stress test scenarios.",
    "Identify how the LIC DSF computes thresholds for debt-burden indicators.",
    "Interpret the outputs of the debt sustainability analysis for low-income countries, as presented in WB and IMF reports."
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