Financing for Development Conferences – the chief event in the United Nations (UN) system on mobilizing the resources needed to achieve development – don’t come around very often: a decade ago in Addis Ababa, negotiators produced the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, which offered a comprehensive framework to guide development policymaking over the last decade. Now, 10 years later, the United Nations will host the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, Spain in June, and the economic landscape negotiators will be working within has shifted substantially since 2015. Despite the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, financing for development has faltered, and with it, so has global progress. […]