Financing for Whom? The Financing for Development Summit Must Address Social Dimensions By Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Isabel Ortiz Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/04/financing-financing-development-summit-must-address-social-dimensions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=financing-financing-development-summit-must-address-social-dimensions NEW YORK, Apr 24 2025 (IPS) - The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) will bring world leaders together to forge a new international consensus on how to finance a better future for all. Yet, in practice, the first drafts of its outcome reveal a glaring omission: people. Despite rhetoric about inclusivity, the drafts are strikingly weak on social issues, as if financing and macroeconomic policies exist in a vacuum, detached from the lives they impact. Copyright © 2025 IPS-Inter Press Service.