debt-sustainability

Context on how the IMF and World Bank assess whether a country's public debt is sustainable, and how far public data can approximate their assessments. Covers debt sustainability analyses (DSAs), which of the two frameworks applies to a country (the joint framework for low-income countries, LIC-DSF, or the IMF's framework for market-access countries, MAC-SRDSF), risk ratings against sustainability judgements, solvency against liquidity, the indicators and thresholds each framework uses, and why indicators built from debt and macroeconomic data differ from a DSA's. Carries the IMF's list of LIC DSAs with each country's latest risk of external debt distress. Load for questions about whether a country's debt is sustainable, its risk of debt distress or sovereign stress, which countries are at high risk or in debt distress, default risk, DSA ratings, debt thresholds or the debt sustainability frameworks.

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