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Medium-Term Debt Management Strategies (MTDS)

The Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) provides a framework for formulating and implementing a debt management strategy for the medium term. It has been developed and implemented in partnership with the IMF. It is primarily focused on determining the appropriate composition of the debt portfolio, taking into account macroeconomic indicators and market environment. MTDS is useful for illustrating government’s cost and risk tradeoffs associated with different debt management strategies and for managing the risk exposure embedded in a debt portfolio, in particular the potential variation in debt servicing costs and its budgetary impact.

MTDS Toolkit

The toolkit includes a guidance note on the process of designing and implementing a debt management strategy in a low-income country (LIC) context, a template for strategy documentation, a quantitative cost-risk analysis tool with an associated handbook.

  • Developing A Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) - Guidance Notes for Country Authorities: World Bank & IMF, 2009. [Document]
  • Developing a Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) - The Analytical Tool - User Guide: World Bank & IMF, 2009 [Document]
  • Developing a Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS) - The Analytical Tool: World Bank & IMF, 2009 [MTDSToolkit.zip]

MTDS Mission Calendar - [Forthcoming]

MTDS Training


Last updated: 2009-11-13




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