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KOENIGSWINTER, Germany , 20 May (AP) \u2014 Finance ministers for the Group of Seven leading economies on Thursday will deal with the immediate effects of Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, overtaking their more ambitious plans to reform the global economy.<\/p>\n
A refugee crisis, high inflation, food insecurity exacerbated by the wa r and climate change, and the ramifications of a multiyear pandemic are just a few issues drawing leaders\u2019 attention.<\/p>\n
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner, the meeting\u2019s host, said he\u2019s hopeful the world\u2019s leading democracies can agree on further funding for Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia.<\/p>\n
Lindner told reporters ahead of the G-7 finance ministers meeting in Koenigswinter, Germany, that Ukraine will likely need \u201ca number of double-digit billion euros\u201d over the coming months.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m quite optimistic that we will be able at this G-7 meeting to raise the funding, which allows Ukraine to defend itself over the next months,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Food insecurity has been a major topic of discussion even before the meeting began. On Wednesday, the U.S. and other officials rolled out a multibillion-dollar plan to address that danger facing an increasingly fragile world economy. The U.S., several global development banks and other groups collaborated on the effort.<\/p>\n
Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine has produced a sharp increase in food and energy prices that is contributing to a slowdown in growth and threatening global stagflation \u2014 when inflation and unemployment are high and economic output is low.<\/p>\n
The two countries are huge exporters of wheat, barley and sunflower oil, with interrupted food and fertilizer supplies raising already high prices and threatening food insecurity in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia.<\/p>\n
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Wednesday that \u201cthe economic outlook globally is challenging and uncertain,\u201d and that \u201chigher food and energy prices are having stagflationary effects, namely depressing output and spending and raising inflation all around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
The State Department says as many as 40 million are projected to be pushed into poverty and food insecurity by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Yellen said the U.S. is committed to holding Russia accountable and called for implementation of an international tax plan signed by more than 130 countries last October. Congressional gridlock in the U.S. will render that ambition difficult to achieve for Yellen, at least domestically.<\/p>\n
Finance ministers also plan to talk about efforts to get China to ease debt pressure on poor countries it has loaned money to.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe situation of the low-income states poses a risk for global food security and the stability of the international financial system,\u201d Lindner said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remind China of its responsibility for this security situation,\u201d he added. \u201cWe need more transparency when it comes to global debt issues and for sure, this is a topic of this meeting too.\u201d<\/p>\n
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