SHORT TERM COURSES PROGRAMME
(1-6 weeks)

TRAINING PROGRAMME ON AFRICAN DEBT MANAGEMENT  

IDEP (Dakar, Senegal),

COURSE CONTENTS

Module1: Introduction and overall perspective of external debt management problems.
- Theoretical framework on debt and debt management
- External debt and necessity for sound external debt management
- External funds categories and borrowing procedures
- Internal debt analysis
- Management of government debt
- Indicators of indebtedness
- Different debt structure according to the countries
- Computer applications

Module 2: Needs for external funds in Africa
- Mobilization of internal and external resources
- Overall data on investment and savings
- Analysis of resource gap and estimates of external funding needs
- Evaluation of external funding needs for Africa 1995-2005
- Capital inflows and outflows from Africa.
- Case studies

Module 3: External debt service capacity and strategy
- The notion of servicing external debt, measurement of debt growth
- The notion of external debt durability
- Macro-economic relations
- Public finance and current balance
- Macro module RMSM-X of balance of payments forecast
- Debt strategy module of model DSM
- Case studies

Module 4: External debt alleviation and restructuring 
- Debt crisis, external debt and structural adjustment
- Multilateral alleviations of debt
- The new initiative of the World Bank and IMF for poor countries
- Debt restructuring and financing options for development
- The Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative linked to PRSP
- Case studies

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