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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Patrick Wintour in Elmau

UNCOVERED: G7 relaunches funding programme for developing countries under new name - The Untold Story

President Joe Biden speaks during a press statement on partnerships for global infrastructure and investment at Castle Elmau in Kruen, near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
President Joe Biden speaks during a press statement on partnerships for global infrastructure and investment at Castle Elmau in Kruen, Germany. Photograph: Michael Kappeler/AP

The G7 has been forced to relaunch its vehicle to provide infrastructure funds to poor and developing countries only a year after a largely similar scheme was unveiled at the G7 conference in Cornwall last July under the label Build Back Better World.

The fund was relaunched at the start of the G7 in Germany on Sunday as the Global Investment and Infrastructure Partnership and with the same goal of providing an alternative to the Chinese belt and road initiative that Beijing has used for more than a decade to build economic ties with developing countries.

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