
Introduction
As the road to the 2025 Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, draws near, nations gathered for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4) in 2025. The South African government assumes the G20 Presidency from 1 December 2024 until November 2025, which marks five years before the deadline of the United Nations (UN) 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Agenda. This means the development debate is at a critical juncture.
FFD4 has emerged as a critical milestone in the global development discourse. The conference articulated a renewed global financing framework aimed at closing the staggering $4 trillion annual financing gap…
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