This issue published by IDEES joins all these initiatives addressing the thoughts and debates around the policy of development cooperation, providing multiple voices, visions and perspectives coming from experts in the field, including both authors from the global South and North. The Centre for Contemporary Studies and the magazine IDEES promote the reflection on global issues by giving voice to Catalonia’s institutions and civil society, academia and other sectors in the country. For these reasons, we feature this timely debate on our future development.