PARIS: G20 finance ministers and central bankers will gather for a video conference led by Italy Friday (Saturday in Manila), hoping to align plans for relaunching the global economy after the coronavirus pandemic and to limit harm to the worst-off nations shut out of the race for vaccines.

Beginning at 12:30 p.m. local time (1:30 a.m. in Manila, Saturday) in New York, the meeting is the first in post for US President Joe Biden’s new Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, expected to be far less confrontational than Donald Trump’s representatives at past gatherings.

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