Description

Course Objectives

• Recognize the risks of high debt.
• Identify the key drivers of public and external debt.
• Evaluate safe debt levels in a world full of uncertainties.
• Assess the costs and benefits of higher public investment from the perspective of debt sustainability, in a country with development needs.
• Use the MAC DSA tool to produce a debt sustainability assessment in a country with access to financial markets.
• Use the LIC DSF tool to determine the risk of public and external debt distress in a country with concessional debt.
• Describe strategies for managing debt within the MTDS framework.\

Course Content

• Overview of Municipal Debt Market
• Capital Financing Methods
• The Bond Sale
• General Debt Management

Training Format:

• All materials are made available through our Online Learning Platform
• Students should commit approximately 5-6 hours of their time per week

Materials Provided:

Online delivery of curriculum materials, exercises and templates.

Assignments:

In order to demonstrate their understanding of the course content, students will be required to submit assignments at the end of every month.