Ahmad M. Awad

The Seville Conference on Financing for Development: Towards Financial Justice for the Peoples of the Global South

As the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development approaches, slated for late June in Seville, Spain, calls are mounting to reconsider the prevailing global model for development financing. This comes amidst a widening gap between the ethical rhetoric promoted by wealthy nations in support of sustainable development and human rights, and the actual practices that continue to entrench the financial and political dependency of countries in the Global South.