Dilemmas and Rigors of the International Development Cooperation Dimension

Abstract

The research Dilemmas and rigors of the International Development Cooperation Dimension aims to bring to the surface directions and trends of development in the field of international development cooperation. Through a literature-based approach, using databases from the Web of Sciences and Scopus platforms, you will extract the most relevant specialized papers so that we can identify and analyze the rigors and dilemmas of the topic. Starting from the premise that new dilemmas and challenges appear daily, which urge us to new research topics, I believe that the approaches and debates of specialists in the context of policies and programs implemented globally, regarding the field of international development cooperation, offer us a critical analysis on the way of operating and implementing policies/programs. Identifying a significant number of specialized researches (which are constantly growing), shows us how much the topic has developed lately, becoming a field of trends where uncertainties regarding the effectiveness and efficiency of programs and policies regularly force us to move from one paradigm to another, enthusiastically praising what seems new and performant, on the one hand, and on the other hand strongly challenging negligence, uncertainty, and lack of specialists. Unfortunately, these common approaches, from academia, are nothing more than findings, which are often dusted off by the mists of time. Living in a time when the emerging challenges are increasingly accentuated, this theoretical-applicative research aims to contribute to the development of the above topic. Analyzing the main topics debated at a global level, we will be able to easily establish the deficiencies identified by the specialists in the field. This research gathers its database with the help of WoS and Scopus databases, having as its main research tool meta-analyses, and the main conclusions are gathered with the help of SWOT analysis. The reason I have chosen this research topic is to emphasis the importance of international development cooperation, as well as to emphasis the need to develop a “Modus operandi1” system, in terms of policies and programs. My aim is to help uncover the main factors that characterize and influence decision-making in the field of International Development Cooperation, in order to help the experts in the field to achieve their intended objectives. Once the results are gathered, we will be able to easily identify what are the problems encountered by specialists in the field, as well as new research niches that are still unexplored. The results obtained can be particularly useful, both to specialists and to those interested who want to approach new topics with the theme of international development cooperation, because with the help of the elaborated model, new research perspectives can be easily recognized.