Finance leaders of the world’s biggest economies called Friday for a cautious and well co-ordinated approach to navigating recoveries from the pandemic.
“This is important so that these policies have minimum impact on global financial markets and on developing countries.” In opening the meetings, Indonesian President Joko Widodo urged that countries co-operate to support the global recovery and avoid tensions like those in Ukraine. The U.S. Federal Reserve is pulling back on massive support for markets and businesses, preparing to raise interest rates as soon as next month to cool inflation that jumped to 7.5 per cent in January – the highest rate in 40 years.
Officials attended the G20 meetings both in person and online, given troubles with travel and quarantines due to outbreaks mostly of the omicron variant of coronavirus, that are plaguing many countries.