In her blog, Cigdem Aslan discusses the pros and cons about different IT systems in the public debt management sphere and explains the survey results of her recently published paper. As a practitioner with several years of government experience, and later as a public debt management advisor at the World Bank Treasury, she is often faced with these questions from client countries: “Which Public Debt Management IT System is best for our needs?”, “Shall we build a software from scratch, or purchase an off-the-shelf system?”. […]