Yellen Urges G-20 Countries to Increase Support for Global Vaccination Efforts
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen assembly with President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and business leaders at the White Home this week.
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WASHINGTON—Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged the Team of 20 international locations to boost their assist for world wide vaccination systems, citing “the substantial, unmet needs of these initiatives.”
“A quick and genuinely world wide vaccination program is the strongest stimulus we can deliver to the world wide economic climate,” she claimed in a letter dated Feb. 25 to her colleagues in the G-20, which consists of China and other emerging-current market economies.
Ms. Yellen lifted problems about minimal-money international locations in specific, which she claimed could encounter further fatalities and a pointless hold off of their economic recoveries with out accessibility to vaccines.
She also emphasized the want for a coordinated response to the world wide disaster and urged G-20 international locations “to go on to choose significant fiscal and financial-plan actions and keep away from withdrawing assist too early.”
Ms. Yellen claimed an allocation of unique drawing rights, a kind of reserve currency made by the International Monetary Fund, could improve liquidity for minimal-money international locations to support their restoration attempts.
“To make this device productive, the G20 have to perform with a wide coalition of international locations on a established of shared parameters for increased transparency and accountability in how SDRs are exchanged and utilised,” she claimed.
She strongly encouraged G-20 associates to channel surplus SDRs in assist of restoration attempts in minimal-money international locations.
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