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  "title": "Fiscal Sustainability (FS)",
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  "summary": "Fiscal Sustainability Training Program Qualifications Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent work experience and some familiarity with using spreadsheets.",
  "publishDate": "2025-05-21",
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      "heading": "Program overview",
      "content": "- Session No.: OT 24.10\n- Location: Washington DC, United States\n- Date: September 16-27, 2024 (2 weeks)\n- Delivery Method: In-person Training\n- Primary Language: Spanish\n- Organizer: Institute for Capacity Development\n- Deadline: Deadline passed"
    },
    {
      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - All government officials are welcome to register.\n  - Course is particularly useful for officials from ministries of finance, debt agencies, central banks, and other government agencies responsible for implementing macroeconomic and debt policies.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent work experience.\n  - Some familiarity with using spreadsheets is expected."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- The course introduces the easy-to-use Excel-based Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT).\n- Uses of the DDT covered in the course:\n  - Projecting the stock of public debt for the baseline (most likely) and alternative scenarios.\n  - Modeling natural-disaster scenarios and fan charts.\n  - Estimating paths of fiscal adjustments consistent with a user-defined target level of debt.\n- Practical component:\n  - Participants are given preliminary data.\n  - Participants are expected to present an analysis of the public debt situation in their country (or the country of their choice) at the end of the course."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives (learning outcomes)",
      "content": "- Project public debt.\n- Identify the main drivers of public debt changes.\n- Compute measures of fiscal adjustments consistent with a public debt target.\n- Conduct a stress test to public debt projections, including through the use of fan charts.\n- Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis to assess the risk of debt distress."
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    "Organizer: Institute for Capacity Development",
    "Deadline: Deadline passed",
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    "Identify the main drivers of public debt changes.",
    "Compute measures of fiscal adjustments consistent with a public debt target.",
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