Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will visit India this week to meet with finance ministers of the Group of 20 (G20) nations before continuing on to Vietnam for bilateral talks, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.
Ms. Yellen will travel to Gandhinagar, India, from July 13 to 21 to participate in the G20 meetings of finance ministers and central bank governors, according to the department.
During the meetings, Ms. Yellen will emphasize the need for concrete progress on global challenges, including on debt and the evolution of multilateral development banks, and push for collective efforts on debt sustainability.
“With over half of all low-income countries at high risk of or in debt distress, it is critical that we take collective action to help put them—and by extension the global economy—on a surer footing,” the Treasury Department said in a statement….