G20's legitimacy depends on treatment of world's poorest, UNDP chief says

FILE PHOTO: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Achim Steiner speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara/File Photo

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The legitimacy of the Group of 20 economic powers depends on its impact on the world's poorest people, not just controlling inflation, the head of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said on Tuesday.

Finance ministers from the G20 are meeting in Brazil this week with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva putting inequality and poverty, as well as climate change, at the top of the agenda.