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fiscal sustainability.\n - Approaches to secure debt sustainability amid pandemic-related pressures.\n - Increasing the efficiency of public investment management.\n - Addressing the “great financing divide” through domestic and external financing options.\n - Targeted external support for the fiscal transition and for managing COVID risks in the most vulnerable countries." }, { "heading": "Fiscal policy, climate change, and building a more resilient economy", "content": "- Public perceptions and policy design:\n - Discussion of public perceptions towards climate change and climate policies and policy features that affect support for governments’ policy actions.\n- Fiscal policy roles and instruments:\n - The role of fiscal policy to achieve climate goals and implement climate change mitigation policies.\n - Scaling up financing for climate in emerging market and developing economies: challenges and opportunities.\n- Health financing and resilient Universal Health Coverage (UHC):\n - Key lessons from COVID-19 response experiences for resilient UHC, with emphasis on health financing and governance.\n - Investment priorities to “Invest More and Better toward Resilient UHC in Asia and Pacific.”" }, { "heading": "Roundtable and high-level conclusions", "content": "- High-level Roundtable participants included regional Finance Ministers, Central Bank Governors, and senior JICA research and policy staff.\n- Closing and synthesis emphasized cross-cutting needs:\n - Coordinated fiscal and financial strategies to support inclusive growth, SDG progress, climate mitigation, and resilient health systems.\n - Mobilizing both domestic and external finance while safeguarding debt sustainability and PFM quality." } ], "bullets": [ "The conference served as a forum for Ministers and Central Bank Governors from Asian countries, academics, and IMF and JICA staff.", "Focused on two main themes: (i) economic setbacks from the pandemic and fiscal policies during the exit stage with a 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