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    Sevilla reporter's notebook Day 4: 'Sevilla is about what comes next'

    On the final day of the Financing for Development conference in Sevilla, negotiators laid the groundwork for long-term tax reform and new public-private cooperation — while calls for deep systemic change grew louder.

    By Jesse Chase-Lubitz, Elissa Miolene // 03 July 2025

    It’s the fourth and final day of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development. Many officials are leaving tired and happy, pointing to a new forum for indebted countries, progress towards a United Nations tax convention, and handshakes between public and private sectors as evidence of the conference’s success.

    Civil society organizations got their 30 minutes of demonstrating today, which they took full advantage of. Chants and whistling could be heard all the way through closed-door side events, and overall, the takeaways were mixed.

    “Despite the lacklustre ambition of the Compromiso de Sevilla where rich countries shirked their responsibility to act on the debt crisis and continued to embrace the private finance first approach to development, this conference also showed what international cooperation can achieve when there is political will for it,” said Hernan Saenz, Oxfam’s global policy lead for FfD, in a statement.

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      Jesse Chase-Lubitz covers climate change and multilateral development banks for Devex. She previously worked at Nature Magazine, where she received a Pulitzer grant for an investigation into land reclamation. She has written for outlets such as Al Jazeera, Bloomberg, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and The Japan Times, among others. Jesse holds a master’s degree in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics.
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      Elissa Miolene reports on USAID and the U.S. government at Devex. She previously covered education at The San Jose Mercury News, and has written for outlets like The Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, Washingtonian magazine, among others. Before shifting to journalism, Elissa led communications for humanitarian agencies in the United States, East Africa, and South Asia.

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