Origin and Evolution of International Cooperation for Development

<span lang="EN-US">The years that followed World War II are considered the base for international cooperation with clear events such as the plans to rebuild Europe, the appearance of the United Nations, and the decolonization process. At the beginning, the international cooperation for development was conceived almost exclusively as the direct transfer of monetary resources to a recipient in order to improve its development indicators. This concept had a crisis or fatigue due to the poor results presented for over three decades. Nowadays, cooperation is reevaluated based on a vision of human development that goes beyond the merely economistic and vertical vision of the previous decades. Once these problems were overcome, the international cooperation for development became dynamic and adjustable to the changing needs of the international environment.