## Public Sector Debt Statistics - Advanced

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**Canonical URL:** [Public Sector Debt Statistics - Advanced](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2025/pds-ast25-20)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: ST 25.20
- Location: Singapore, Singapore
- Dates: September 1-12, 2025 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: In-person Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Target audience
- Officials whose main responsibility, for at least three years, has been compiling and disseminating public sector debt statistics (PSDS).
- Officials who are regularly faced with more complex PSDS methodological and compilation issues, such as those described in the course description.

### Qualifications and selection
- Expected background: degree in economics, public financial management, statistics or equivalent experience.
- Recommendation: applicants should first complete the online Public Sector Debt Statistics (PSDSx) or the Public Sector Debt Statistics fundamental (PDS-F) courses.
- Selection: will be based on the criteria; priority if an official successfully completed the PSDSx or PDS-F.

### Course description (Statistics Department)
- Conceptual framework focus: Government Finance Statistics Manual 2014 (GFSM 2014) and Public Sector Debt Statistics: Guide for Compilers and Users (PSDSG).
- Prerequisite knowledge: familiarity with basic government finance statistics (GFS) and PSDS framework and classification system.
- Emphasis: integration of stock positions and flows in the framework.
- Complex issues addressed:
  - Definition of gross and net debt in terms of debt instruments.
  - Coverage and sectorization of the public sector, with special attention to borderline and complex cases.
  - Valuation of public sector debt statistics.
  - Consolidation of public sector debt statistics.
- Cross-cutting PSDS topics covered:
  - Government employee pension liabilities.
  - Standardized guarantee schemes.
  - Contracts, leases, licenses.
  - Public-private partnerships.
  - The balance sheet approach (BSA) to identify risks and vulnerabilities.
- Format: lectures and discussions.

### Course objectives
- Upon completion, participants should be able to:
  - Apply the general principles in GFSM 2014 and PSDSG to more complex PSDS issues regarding concepts and definitions, coverage and sectorization, valuation, and consolidation.
  - Apply the general principles in GFSM 2014 and PSDSG to complex cross-cutting issues such as government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, social protection, government employee pension liabilities, standardized guarantee schemes, contracts, leases, licenses, public-private partnerships, and the balance sheet approach (BSA).

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## References

- [In-person Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Sovereign Risk and Debt Sustainability Framework for Market Access Countries and IMF Policies (SRDSF-MAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ct/2026/srdsf-macct26-19)
- [Taxation and Domestic Revenue Mobilization](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/tdrmce26-34)
- [Integrating Basel III Liquidity Standards with ILAAP A Framework for Effective Liquidity Risk Management](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/ce26-31)
- [Financial Programming and Policies (FPP)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fppce26-41)
- [Producer, Export, and Import Price Statistics](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/jv/2026/peijv26-36)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/st/2025/pds-ast25-20_