The club of finance ministers and central bankers who’ve steered the global economy through a quarter century of market meltdowns, recessions and the pandemic meet this week facing new headwinds to their goal of broader prosperity — tariffs and the imminent threat of trade wars.

Finance ministers and central bankers from the G20 top economies gather in South Africa on Wednesday and Thursday, for a meeting marred by the absence or curtailed attendance of key members and disputes over the main issues of climate,

The UAE, represented by the UAE Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of the UAE, participated in the first G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (FMCBG) meeting under the South African Presidency of the G20,

Argentina’s Luis Caputo is the latest economy minister to skip a meeting of G-20 finance chiefs in South Africa, following a similar decision by the US delegation.

A number of finance ministers skipped a gathering of the Group of 20 top economies in South Africa on Wednesday, and other top officials curtailed trips to a meeting marred by disputes over the main issues of climate,