Try the LIC-DSF scenario tool
Using a fictional example country, see how a debt-financed public investment could change its debt outlook compared with No investment, then download a briefing you can share.
What this site is
The LIC-DSF Scenario Tool is open-source software that runs locally on your own computer, so ministries never need to share private data. This site is an illustrative online version. It shows how the tool works and collects design feedback: Send design feedback.
In real use, analysts work with their own completed DSA workbooks, which are often sensitive. This site never asks for one. It uses the template’s illustrative data, relabelled here as a fictional country, Macronia, which does not represent any actual country.
Illustrative example. Not an IMF or World Bank product. Do not enter confidential information. Your visit expires after one hour.
The example data come from the joint IMF and World Bank LIC-DSF template, published by the World Bank. In real use, an analyst starts from their own finished baseline DSA.
Guided example: compare two investment teaching cases with No investment.
You will: load the example, review the baseline, load and calculate the three teaching cases (No investment and the two investment cases), then compare them and download a briefing packet.
Limits and privacy
Explore alternative macroeconomic assumptions, compare debt outcomes and prepare a briefing with charts and data. Try the official illustrative workbook and ready-made teaching cases before downloading the app.
Early experimental preview. Developed iteratively with stakeholder co-design. Not an official IMF or World Bank product.
Illustrative online version. Assumptions, labels and explanations you enter are processed on this server. Use only illustrative, non-confidential inputs. The example uses illustrative IMF and World Bank LIC-DSF template data for Macronia, which represents no actual country. Access expires one hour after entry. Server cleanup is targeted within another 75 seconds, or when you delete the visit; work is also lost on service restart. Download scenario files to keep your inputs. Downloaded files remain on your device. Own-workbook use and private journals are available only in the local app.
Each visit has a separate temporary workspace on this server. Operators can access server data. Do not enter confidential information or private notes.
Service limits and how calculations work
This pilot admits at most 25 simultaneous visits and 50 new visits per hour. Each visit permits eight calculations, 60 saved edits and 30 completed exports. A chart pair uses two slots; the final slot is reserved for the briefing packet.
One new calculation or export runs at a time. Charts and packets wait automatically in a queue, with one outstanding export per visit. Waiting stops after ten minutes; ready downloads expire after one minute. You can cancel. Changed inputs take longer than the teaching cases and may need a retry when the service is busy.
Exact prepared teaching inputs may reuse results calculated at service startup; the evidence identifies reuse. Changed numerical inputs run the calculator. There are no accounts or retained history.
Download the local app for your own workbook