La Cooperación Internacional al Desarrollo desde Easterly y Sachs: El Estructuralismo Institucional como apuesta de futuro

Abstract

If there is something in which William Easterly and Jeffrey Sachs agree on, is that the politics of Development Cooperation have failed. And this failure is not a matter of how much money have been invested, but how the money is spent and why has been decided to invest in the already existing politics. The XXI century started with the increasing concern about the efficiency of such politics. Simultaneously, the concept of Development Cooperation has been constantly questioned, following, as a result, a heated argument that tries to clarify the reasons behind the failure and how the resources available should be properly managed. This text focuses its attention on one of the main issues regarding the deficiencies of the Development Cooperation: the weaknesses of the institutions. Therefore, the concept of Institutional Structuralism (Midgley, J, 2014) will come up as a means to successfully achieve the goals that the development projects demand.