Despite Pope Francis’s wishes, there’s little appetite for richer nations to help the poorest

For emerging economies, the outlook is especially bleak, with refinancing debts tougher amid newly volatile currency markets. Photograph: Said Yusuf Warsame/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Pope Francis’s vast funeral in Rome on Saturday featured a certain amount of politicking amid the splendour, against the magnificent backdrop of St Peter’s Basilica.

If the meeting between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump results in progress towards a less inequitable peace than the one currently envisaged by the US, perhaps that will be fitting, given the late pontiff’s consistent calls for an end to war.