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Debt Strategy Analysis provides a comprehensive framework for the analysis of debt issues, including debt restructuring and resource mobilisation, within a macroeconomic context, so as to assess long-term debt sustainability. To have a complete picture of future debt sustainability, it is important to include both external and domestic debt in the analysis.
The HIPC CBP has been assisting countries to develop independent national capacity to undertake debt strategy analysis. For more details of the HIPC CBP approach to conducting debt strategy analysis, go to the following:
The IMF and World Bank have recently launched new initiatives to assist low income countries in the areas of debt strategy and sustainability analyses as follows:
- Debt Sustainability Framework (DSF) provides a standardised framework for the analysis of the debt and debt service dynamics under a baseline scenario and in the face of plausible shocks. For further information go to www.imf.org/external and web.worldbank.org1 and click on BWI Debt Sustainability framework
 (160.00 KB). - Medium-term Debt Strategy (MTDS) is to provide framework for country-led development of a debt strategy, reflecting fiscal and monetary constraints and the government’s trade-off between portfolio costs and risks. For further information, click on Country led medium term debt strategies (117.50 KB) and go to web.worldbank.org2
- Debt Management Performance Assessment Tools (DeMPA) which provides a methodology for assessing public debt management performance through a comprehensive set of indicators. For more information go to web.worldbank.org3
For information on indicators for assessing debt sustainability click here |
Debt Strategy Analysis (DSA)
