Nouveaux regards sur la coopération pour le développement et ses transformations

Abstract

Since the decade which began with the new millennium in 2000, international development assistance may be seen as part of a broader process which has entailed major changes. First, the financing of development has been characterized by the emergence of a growing number of private and public actors, which entail multiple relations and far reaching objectives involving them increasingly in the very functioning of recipient states. On the other hand, development assistance has become a results based system which privileges technical dimensions to the detriment of political debate concerning the nature and objectives of the development policies themselves. This ongoing process of the complexification of the environment in which development assistance takes place is analyzed by bringing together the insights from different disciplinary perspectives including political science, political economy and sociology.