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Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (edX)

This course is aimed at building capacity to develop a medium-term debt management strategy (MTDS), contributing to improved public debt management. It explains the joint International Monetary Fund-World Bank (IMF-WB) MTDS framework and provides comprehensive training on the accompanying analytical tool, MTDS [...]

Public Debt, Investment, and Growth: The DIG and DIGNAR Models (edX)

This online course, presented by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Research Department, explains how to analyze the relation between public investment, growth, and public debt dynamics, using two dynamic structural models: the Debt, Investment, and Growth (DIG) model and the Debt, Investment, Growth and Natural Resources (DIGNAR) [...]

Projecting Public Debt - The Public Debt Dynamics Tool (edX)

This two-module course online course, presented by the Institute for Capacity Development, explains how to project the evolution of public debt (i.e., government debt) over time, for a given set of projections of the relevant macro-fiscal variables. This course, lays out the underpinnings of public debt dynamics (i.e., of [...]

Public Debt Dynamics under Uncertainty (edX)

This online course, presented jointly by the Institute for Capacity Development and the Fiscal Affairs Department, provides an overview of how to assess public debt dynamics under uncertainty. That is, the course discusses how to think about public debt projections when we acknowledge uncertainty about the key variables that [...]