Debt Management
Effective debt management is essential for economic development. As countries develop they confront increasing challenges in managing public financial risk whilst still achieving their ambitious poverty reduction and economic growth targets.
Building strong debt management institutions, developing clearly defined procedures and creating the capacity for rigorous analysis can help these countries to effectively manage these risks, minimising the cost of borrowing and ensuring a sustainable debt position into the future.
OPM provides services that can help meet these objectives by improving all aspects of a country’s debt management performance. Our debt management team has extensive experience of providing technical assistance and training in debt and cash management to governments worldwide.
Our areas of expertise include:
- Legal and institutional structure for debt management
- Debt recording and reporting
- Loan negotiation and evaluation
- Debt strategy and policy formulation
- Portfolio review and debt sustainability analysis
- Management of contingent liabilities, on-lending and sub-national debt
- Debt restructuring and debt relief
- Capital market development
- Diagnostic review of debt management operations
OPM offer a holistic approach to debt management, ensuring that reforms are firmly rooted in the broader public financial management context. For more information on our approach to debt and cash management, please see our new brochure Effective Debt Management below.
Recent publications:
Effective Debt Management – A Summary of OPM’s Approach to Debt Management Effective Debt Management (567 kb) ![[pdf]](http://www.opml.co.uk/display_images/document_icons/pdf.gif){kind=icon}
Modelling Cost at Risk: A Preliminary Approach for Beginners, Sanga Sangarabalan and Per-Olof Jönsson, May 2007 Modelling Cost at Risk (140 kb)
Project Examples
Evaluation of Commonwealth Secretariat Debt Management Programme
Client: Commonwealth Secretariat
Funder: Commonwealth Secretariat