Risk management has become an increasingly important tool for achieving strategic debt targets, and is now an integral part of a wider strategic debt management framework based on benchmarks in most jurisdictions. However, this study shows that the extent and sophistication of risk management...

The COVID-19 pandemic poses significant challenges for public debt management offices (DMOs). Some of these challenges include: sudden and significant increases in borrowing needs, volatile market conditions, health and safety risks in workplaces and temporary mismatches in fiscal cash flows....

The economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, particularly for fragile countries, have renewed focus on debt transparency, prompting international organisations and national authorities to step up their efforts to improve the consistency, comparability, scope and frequency of debt...