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The Economic Policy and Debt Department (PRMED) is the unit within the World Bank's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management (PREM) Network responsible for the Bank's work on economic policy and financing for growth including growth analytics, national and sub-national fiscal policy, strategic debt issues, debt management, and related knowledge dissemination. PRMED also supports the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative implementation and crafts the Bank's position in the global debate on debt issues.

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| October 2009 | The Debt Sustainability Framework to Become More Flexible for Low-Income Countries - [Interview] | | October 2009 | DeMPA Report: Solomon Islands - [Document] | | October 2009 | Debt Relief and Beyond: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead - [Overview] | | September 2009 | Central African Republic: Completion Point Document - [Document] | | September 2009 | HIPC At-A-Glance Guide (Fall 2009) [English] | [French] | | September 2009 | Debt Relief and Continued Flexibility Alleviate the Debt Burdens of Poor Countries - [Overview] | | September 2009 | Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) - Status of Implementation - [Document] | | September 2009 | Haiti Completion Point Document - [Document] | | September 2009 | The Debt Sustainability Framework to Become More Flexible for Low-Income Countries - [Overview] | | August 2009 | DeMPA Report: Mozambique - [ English] | | August 2009 | Fiscal (and External) Sustainability - [Document] | | August 2009 | On the Probabilistic Approach to Fiscal Sustainability: Structural Breaks and Non-Normality - [Document] | | August 2009 | DeMPA Guide [French] and DeMPA Tool [French] | | July 2009 | DeMPA Guide [Arabic] and DeMPA Tool [Arabic] | | Â | ...More |
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The debt management work program includes two components: the Debt Management Performance Assessment (DeMPA) tool and technical assistance in designing and implementing Medium-Term Debt Management Strategies (MTDS) ....more |
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Debt relief work relates to the implementation of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI), and the administration of the Debt Reduction Facility (DRF) for IDA-only countries....more |

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This joint World Bank-IMF framework aims to support Low-Income Countries’ (LICs) efforts to achieve their development goals without creating future debt problems...more |

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Fiscal sustainability is a good starting point for the discussion of growth-oriented fiscal policy because unsustainable public finances inevitably lead to crises....more |
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PRMED presents events, tools, good practice examples, literature, and other information related to country-level growth analytics....more |

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Dissemination of knowledge on economic policies and financing for growth is a critical part of PRMED’s work program activities....more |