G20 to Show United Front on Support for Global Economic Recovery, Cash for IMF

The world’s financial leaders are expected on Friday to agree to continue their support measures for the global economy and look to boost the International Monetary Fund’s resources so it can help poorer countries fight off the effects of the pandemic.

Finance ministers and central bank governors of the world’s top 20 economies, called the G20, held a video-conference on Friday and top of the agenda was the global response to the economic havoc wreaked by the coronavirus.

The meeting comes as the United States is readying $1.9 trillion in fiscal stimulus and the European Union has already put together more than 3 trillion euros ($3.63 trillion) to keep its economies going despite COVID-19 lockdowns.

But despite the large sums, problems with the global rollout of vaccines and the emergence of new variants of the coronavirus mean the future of the recovery remains uncertain.

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz warned that recovery was taking longer than expected and it was too…