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  "title": "Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDSx)",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ol/2026/mtdsxol26-186",
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  "summary": "Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy Training Program Qualifications Some knowledge of economics is helpful.",
  "publishDate": "2026-02-24",
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      "heading": "Program logistics",
      "content": "- Session No.: OL 26.186\n- Location: Course conducted online\n- Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: Online Training\n- Primary Language: Russian\n- Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics is helpful. Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- All government officials are welcome to register.\n- Particularly useful for officials from:\n  - debt management offices\n  - treasury departments\n  - ministries of finance\n  - ministries of economy\n  - central banks\n  - other government officials responsible for providing advice or implementing debt management policies"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- Aim: build capacity to develop a medium-term debt management strategy (MTDS), contributing to improved public debt management.\n- Explains the joint International Monetary Fund-World Bank (IMF-WB) MTDS framework.\n- Provides comprehensive training on the accompanying analytical tool, MTDS AT.\n- MTDS AT use cases:\n  - analyze quantitatively the cost-risk characteristics of an existing debt portfolio\n  - analyze cost-risk trade-offs of alternative financing strategies\n- Participants learn to develop financing strategies by taking into account:\n  - composition of the existing debt portfolio\n  - developments in key macroeconomic and market conditions\n  - potential sources of financing\n  - linkages with broader medium-term macroeconomic framework, including debt sustainability"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:\n  - Describe the steps in developing an MTDS (the IMF-WB MTDS framework).\n  - Analyze the central government debt portfolio to identify the costs and risks inherent in the existing debt.\n  - Formulate different market risk scenarios (baseline and shock scenarios), adapting them to the country's specific situation.\n  - Identify and assess various financing strategies under these scenarios and compare the cost/risk trade-offs involved.\n  - Use the quantitative MTDS analytical tool that accompanies the MTDS framework.\n  - Present the results of the analysis in a manner that enhances its value for policy purposes.\n  - Formulate a strategy that is in line with debt management objectives.\n  - Design an annual borrowing plan for the first two years of the strategy period."
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    "Date: May 1, 2026 - April 15, 2027 (50 weeks)",
    "Delivery Method: Online Training",
    "Primary Language: Russian",
    "Qualifications: Some knowledge of economics is helpful. Basic Microsoft Excel skills and access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser are essential.",
    "All government officials are welcome to register.",
    "Particularly useful for officials from:",
    "Aim: build capacity to develop a medium-term debt management strategy (MTDS), contributing to improved public debt management.",
    "Explains the joint International Monetary Fund-World Bank (IMF-WB) MTDS framework.",
    "Provides comprehensive training on the accompanying analytical tool, MTDS AT.",
    "MTDS AT use cases:",
    "Participants learn to develop financing strategies by taking into account:",
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