Presente y futuro de la Cooperación al Desarrollo: Entre el debate de la eficacia y las dudas sobre su pertinencia

This article presents an overview of the most important debates that explain not only the present and the future of development co-operation, but also its relation to the crisis, framing in within the papers published in the current issue of the Journal of Applied Economics Studies. On one hand, these debates are associated to the vast literature emerged over the last twenty years concerning the effectiveness of aid and the need of an improvement of its quality. On the other hand, they are related to a wider viewpoint that questions the identity of the co-operation nowadays and the role that it can play in the following years.