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  "title": "Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC DSFx)",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Some knowledge of economics would be helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2026-02-18",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target audience:\n  - Officials from ministries of finance\n  - Debt agencies\n  - Central banks\n  - 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 26.120\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks) New dates\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: French"
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    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and approach",
      "content": "- Provides an overview of the World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC DSF)\n- Purpose of the LIC DSF:\n  - Help low-income countries achieve their development goals while minimizing the risk of debt distress\n- Instructional progression:\n  - Identify data requirements and the \"realism tools\" used for assessing the plausibility of macroeconomic projections\n  - Explain how the LIC DSF computes a country's debt-carrying capacity, which determines thresholds for debt-burden indicators\n  - Show how breaches of thresholds under baseline or stress test scenarios signal risk of debt distress\n  - Explore the use of judgment to arrive at a final risk rating\n- Outcome orientation:\n  - Enables participants to interpret LIC DSF outputs presented in WB and IMF reports"
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      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:\n- 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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    "Location: Course conducted online",
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    "Primary Language: French",
    "Provides an overview of the World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC DSF)",
    "Purpose of the LIC DSF:",
    "Instructional progression:",
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    "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",
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    "Interpret the outputs of the debt sustainability analysis for low-income countries, as presented in WB and IMF reports"
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