05 Jun 2022 Education Finance in Asia-Pacific is a policy brief prepared for the 2nd Asia-Pacific Regional Education Ministers’ Conference (APREMC-II). It examines key challenges in education financing across the region, including low and inequitable public spending, inefficiencies in resource allocation, and gaps in education expenditure data. The brief analyses the impact of COVID-19 on education finance and outlines priority policy actions to support learning recovery and longer-term transformation of education systems, with a focus on equity, efficiency, resilience to future shocks, and sustained progress towards SDG 4 and the Education 2030 Agenda