About the Journal
The ISDA Journal is a peer reviewed open access quarterly journal published by the Institute for the Study of Developing Areas (ISDA) Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The journal is multi-disciplinary and gives thrust on the broad area of development and Public Policy. It provides platform for researchers, academicians, professionals, and students to share knowledge in the form of worthy and resourceful empirical and theoretical research papers, case studies, literature reviews and book reviews. It is registered with the Registrar of Newspapers for India (R.N.64437/91) and obtained ISSN0971-2550 for print Journal in the year 1991. It has a national level circulation and subscribed by libraries of several universities, colleges and institutions of higher learning all over the country. It has more than thousand individual subscribers nation-wide and a wide reach by using the facility of Open Access provision.
Publication Policy
The Institute for the Study of Developing Areas (ISDA) is a public institution registered under the Societies Registration Act as a non-profit making autonomous body established in the year 1991. The purpose of the Society is to promote interdisciplinary research and academic publication, undertake action projects with special emphasis on the problems of socially underprivileged groups and under-developed regions. Its objectives include initiatives to empower weaker sections, undertake programmes for sustainable rural and urban development, provide vocational training and skill development programmes for the poor especially the rural unemployed women, popularization of science, environmental protection, propagation of social harmony and national integration.
ISDA represents the organised initiative of a group of academicians belonging to an interdisciplinary domain. We have a team of well-experienced academicians and veteran researchers who willingly associate with us in our academic activities