2. The pursuit of "visible" results is a fantasy plaguing the present phase of international cooperation, which suffers from the trauma of being accused of being "inefficient" by the economic and political actors. In the face of the historical and long term problems of poverty and underdevelopment, "visible" and short term results are often contradictory and detrimental to a vision that conceives of development as a self-sustaining process, that can only be long term.