Training Program

This course discusses key institutions that help governments better understand, monitor, and manage risks to public finances. It provides an overview of the key sources of fiscal risks, approaches to analyzing and mitigating them, and institutional arrangements for dealing with them. It provides an overview of the IMF's Fiscal Risk Toolkit, which comprises a range of practical Excel-based tools to assist countries in analyzing and quantifying their fiscal risk exposures, as well as training on the application of selected tools in the Toolkit. The course also discusses standards for reporting and disclosing fiscal risks - as prescribed in the IMF's Fiscal Transparency Code.