{"id":56620,"date":"2025-06-30T19:09:59","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/world-leaders-address-wealth-gap-at-financing-meeting"},"modified":"2025-06-30T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T19:34:32","slug":"world-leaders-address-wealth-gap-at-financing-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/world-leaders-address-wealth-gap-at-financing-meeting","title":{"rendered":"World Leaders Address Wealth Gap at Financing Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span><b>Many of the world\u2019s nations are gathering starting Monday in Spain for a high-level conference to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor nations and try to drum up the trillions of dollars needed to close it.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The United States, previously a major contributor, pulled its participation, so finding funding will be tough.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N. and Spain, the conference co-hosts, believe the meeting is an opportunity to reverse the downward spiral, close the staggering $4 trillion annual financing gap to promote development, bring millions of people out of poverty and help achieve the U.N.\u2019s wide-ranging and badly lagging Sustainable Development Goals for 2030.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Seville offers us a great opportunity in this very difficult, uncertain, and complex time,&#8221; Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sa\u0301nchez said. &#8220;There aren&#8217;t many opportunities, which is why we must seize it to work together, so that when we look back, we are certain that we did what we had to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The four-day Financing for Development meeting in the southern city of Seville is taking place as many countries face escalating debt burdens, declining investments, decreasing international aid and increasing trade barriers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Countries need and deserve a system that lowers borrowing costs, enables fair and timely debt restructuring, and prevents debt crisis in the first place,&#8221; United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Mauritius<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mauritius. 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