Open AccessLa cooperación al desarrollo como parte de la estructura económica del capitalismo global
Author(s) -
Irene Maestro Yarza,
Javier Martínez Peinado
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
estudios de economía aplicada
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 6
eISSN - 1697-5731
pISSN - 1133-3197
DOI - 10.25115/eea.v30i3.3606
Subject(s) - capitalism , superstructure , reproduction , capitalist system , economic system , pillar , political science , order (exchange) , welfare economics , sociology , humanities , economics , engineering , philosophy , law , ecology , structural engineering , finance , politics , biology
In this article the relationship between Cooperation for Development and capitalist development is examined, focusing specially on changes in both processes during the last decades. It is argued that Development Cooperation is a part of the world economic structure, designed by capitalism along its different phases (in an international dimension, first; and global afterwards), so its functionality is embodied in the capitalist logical scheme itself. This paper outlines the narrow relationship between the cooperation models and the logics of reproduction of World System, both in its structure and superstructure dimensions. A Pro System cooperation practice is distinguished from an Anti System one, and some preliminary conclusions are derived about the need of improvements in Development Cooperation in order to promote truly structural changes.