Many of the world’s countries gathered in Spain on Monday, with the notable exception of the United States, in a bid to tackle the growing gap between rich and poor nations and try to drum up trillions of dollars needed to close it.
"Financing is the engine of development. And right now, this engine is sputtering," United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in his opening comments at the four-day Financing for Development meeting in Seville.
