Policy Challenges and Bringing Down Public Debt
Opening Remarks by Deputy Managing Director Kenji Okamura
at the Fiscal Policy and Sovereign Debt Conference
June 7, 2024
Good morning and welcome to our conference on “Fiscal Policy and Sovereign Debt.”
I would like to begin by thanking our co-hosts: the Center for Advanced Research in Finance at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University.
This conference is part of the IMF’s Sovereign Debt Network project, which brings together leading scholars and senior policymakers to discuss and share their recent work on fiscal policy and public debt.
Our discussion is timely. Even…
