Managing Fiscal Risks in Emerging Market Economies
Course Description
The IMF’s Technical Assistance Office in Thailand (TAOLAM), in collaboration with the IMF’s South Asia Regional Training and Technical Assistance Center (SARTTAC) in India, is offering a seminar on Managing Fiscal Risks in Emerging Market Economies. The seminar, which is being organized in close cooperation with the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, will be held in Bangkok during November 28–December 1, 2017. This activity is being funded in part by generous support provided to the IMF by the Government of Japan.
The seminar will involve both knowledge development and peer-to-peer exchange in monitoring, analyzing, and managing fiscal risks. It is intended to bring together mid- to senior-level officials from emerging economies in South and Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, as well as selected officials from several developing economies in the region, including Cambodia, Lao P.D.R, Myanmar, and Vietnam.
The seminar will cover amongst others:
• Sources of Fiscal Risks;
• Managing Macroeconomic Fiscal Risk
• Disclosure and Reporting Standards for Fiscal Risks;
• Fiscal Risks Arising from Public Enterprises and PPPs
• Fiscal Risk of the Financial Sector
• New, Cutting Edge Tools for Analysis of Fiscal Risk developed by the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department
• Country Presentations on Fiscal Risk Management in South and South East Asia.
