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G-7 Backs Debt Help for Poor Nations, Splits on IMF Fillip

  • Mnuchin against increasing IMF funding, France’s LeMaire says
  • G-7 announces support for IMF’s proposed dollar liquidity line
Pedestrians walk along a near-empty street in Shinjuku district in Tokyo on April 10.
Pedestrians walk along a near-empty street in Shinjuku district in Tokyo on April 10.Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg
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The world’s top industrial economies backed plans to help shield emerging and developing markets from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, although divisions remain over whether to provide the International Monetary Fund with more resources.

The Group of Seven finance ministers and central bankers said they are prepared to offer a limited moratorium on debt repayments from poor countries. They also backed the IMF’s proposed new liquidity program to rapidly address a shortage of dollars in emerging markets.