OVERVIEW
Effective debt management is the process of establishing and executing a strategy for managing a governments’ debt in order to raise the required amount of funding, achieve its risk and cost objectives, and to meet any other debt management goals that a government may have set, such as developing and maintaining an efficient market for government securities. This course provides an overview of Effective Debt Management and Sustainability by explaining concepts in a user-friendly language, avoiding mathematics and using simple illustrations and country examples. The objective of the course is to explain in layman’s language based on past experience and prior trainings. Besides overall concepts, this course will provide in-depth understanding of debt sustainability issues, an appreciation of public debt management in the budgetary context, explain facets of external and domestic public borrowing, and introduce participants to the meaning and implication of contingent liability and risk management.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
At the end of the course, the participants should be able to:
- State in simple terms the meaning of public debt
- Debt Management Objectives and Coordination
- Describe the aspects of domestic and external debt
- Debt Sustainability Analysis
- Explain the basic and advanced concepts in public debt management
- Determine the implications of contingent liability and risk management