## Fiscal Sustainability (FS)

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**Canonical URL:** [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ot/2024/fsot24-10)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: OT 24.10
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Dates: September 16-27, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: Spanish
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Program overview
- Session No.: OT 24.10
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: September 16-27, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery Method: In-person Training
- Primary Language: Spanish
- Organizer: Institute for Capacity Development
- Deadline: Deadline passed

### Target audience and qualifications
- Target Audience:
  - All government officials are welcome to register.
  - 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.
- Qualifications:
  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics or equivalent work experience.
  - Some familiarity with using spreadsheets is expected.

### Course description
- The course introduces the easy-to-use Excel-based Public Debt Dynamics Tool (DDT).
- Uses of the DDT covered in the course:
  - Projecting the stock of public debt for the baseline (most likely) and alternative scenarios.
  - Modeling natural-disaster scenarios and fan charts.
  - Estimating paths of fiscal adjustments consistent with a user-defined target level of debt.
- Practical component:
  - Participants are given preliminary data.
  - 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.

### Course objectives (learning outcomes)
- Project public debt.
- Identify the main drivers of public debt changes.
- Compute measures of fiscal adjustments consistent with a public debt target.
- Conduct a stress test to public debt projections, including through the use of fan charts.
- Identify the main components of a debt sustainability analysis to assess the risk of debt distress.

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Tax Regional Workshop on Strategic Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/taxce26-43)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ot/2024/fsot24-10_