The 2024 Asia-Pacific Conference on Economics & Finance (APEF 2024), organized by East Asia Research and supported by Universiti Malaysia Sarawak and Loughborough University, UK, will be a hybrid event taking place in Singapore on December 12-13, 2024. This conference is a key gathering for economists and financial experts from academia, government, and the private sector to present research results, exchange ideas, and network. APEF 2024 will feature oral/poster presentations and offers opportunities for publication in the conference proceedings, which are indexed and may be SCOPUS indexed.