Debt, post-pandemic sustainability: what scenarios?

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(Finance) – Public debt management, with particular reference to its own sustainability, aalso environmental, its impact on economic growth and relations with the development of capital markets: these are some of the topics covered during the second edition of the Public Debt Management Conference which ended in Romepromoted and organized by Public Debt Management Network.

The first edition of the Conference took place in Paris on 4 and 5 September 2019, at the OECD headquarters. The international conference, hosted this year by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, was attended by around 250 international guests from all continents.

To animate the debate public debt managers, explains the Mef in a note, representatives of international institutions, experts from the academic and research world and authors of the 18 works selected following a call for papers launched by the Public Debt Network last year. Among others, the Director General of the Treasury, Alessandro Rivera, the Deputy Secretary General of the OECD, Yoshiki Takeuchi, the practice manager of the World Bank, Anderson Silva as well as the Director of the Directorate for Financial Affairs and Businesses of the OECD spoke. , Carmine Di Noia.

They were also presented insights and studies on specific national contexts, presented as case studies in relation, for example, to the liquidity of the secondary market for government bonds, the development of local currency bond markets as well as the effects
the adoption of unconventional measures to deal with the pandemic. The proceedings of the conference will be collected and published later. Meanwhile, some contributions will be made available on the Treasury Department website.

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