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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": "2026-02-17",
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      "heading": "Training program overview",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 26.122\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: Portuguese\n- Target audience: 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: Some knowledge of economics would be helpful. Basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential."
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Provides an overview of the World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC DSF).\n- Explains purpose: help low-income countries achieve development goals while minimizing the risk of debt distress.\n- Teaches interpretation of LIC DSF outputs presented in WB and IMF reports.\n- Covers the step-by-step application of the LIC DSF:\n  - Identify data requirements and the \"realism tools\" used for assessing the plausibility of macroeconomic projections.\n  - Show how the LIC DSF computes a country's debt-carrying capacity for determining thresholds for debt-burden indicators.\n  - Explain that when a debt-burden indicator breaches its threshold under either the baseline or stress test scenarios, this signals risk of debt distress.\n  - Explore how judgment can be used to arrive at a final risk rating."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Key analytical components and scenarios",
      "content": "- Data requirements: identification and assembly of data needed for the LIC DSF template.\n- Realism tools: methods to assess plausibility of macroeconomic projections.\n- Debt-carrying capacity: computed by the LIC DSF to determine thresholds for debt-burden indicators.\n- Stress test scenarios: interpretation of LIC DSF stress test scenarios and how breaches of thresholds under baseline or stress tests signal risk of debt distress.\n- Judgment: use of expert judgment to arrive at a final debt distress risk rating."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (upon 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 26.122",
    "Location: Course conducted online",
    "Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: Portuguese",
    "Target audience: officials from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for providing advice or implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.",
    "Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics would be helpful. Basic Microsoft Excel skills are essential.",
    "Provides an overview of the World Bank-IMF Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC DSF).",
    "Explains purpose: help low-income countries achieve development goals while minimizing the risk of debt distress.",
    "Teaches interpretation of LIC DSF outputs presented in WB and IMF reports.",
    "Covers the step-by-step application of the LIC DSF:",
    "Data requirements: identification and assembly of data needed for the LIC DSF template.",
    "Realism tools: methods to assess plausibility of macroeconomic projections.",
    "Debt-carrying capacity: computed by the LIC DSF to determine thresholds for debt-burden indicators.",
    "Stress test scenarios: interpretation of LIC DSF stress test scenarios and how breaches of thresholds under baseline or stress tests signal risk of debt distress.",
    "Judgment: use of expert judgment to arrive at a final debt distress risk rating.",
    "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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