Journal of South Asian Development
The Journal of South Asian Development is a refereed multi-disciplinary social science journal bringing out three issues per year. JSAD publishes original research articles, book reviews and scholarly commentary relating to all facets of development in South Asia.
The journal carries empirical studies as well as theoretical and conceptual articles covering contemporary development issues in the region, from diverse disciplinary perspectives including economics, political science, sociology, socio-cultural anthropology, as well as interdisciplinary areas such as development studies, gender studies and migration studies. Geographically, JSAD covers the seven states of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives) plus Afghanistan.
Electronic Access:
Journal of South Asian Development is available electronically on Sage Journals Online at http://journals.sagepub.com/home/SAD.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).The Journal of South Asian Development (JSAD) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes papers based on original research pertaining to any aspect of development in the South Asian region (comprising of Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives, as well as Afghanistan). We invite papers focusing on the economic, social or political dimensions of development in South Asia. We welcome a diversity of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, analytical frameworks and methodological approaches, and value interdisciplinary and comparative research. JSAD engages a wide readership across the social sciences, both in South Asia and globally, including researchers, practitioners, policymakers, the media and others.
Contributions are welcomed from economists, sociologists, political scientists, social geographers, development studies scholars, and other social scientists committed to the study and analysis of development issues in the South Asia region. Within this broad field, we are particularly interested in receiving research articles on:
- economic growth, institutions, state capacity, structural reforms, structural transformation, factors of growth, firms, households
- business cycle fluctuations, stabilisation policies – monetary, fiscal, financial
- open economy macroeconomics, international trade
- governance: public policy, civil society, social protection and welfare
- political economy and ecology of development: environment, climate change, dispossession, displacement, social and environmental justice
- poverty and inequality: marginalization, social mobility, health, nutrition, food security
- labour and education: skill development, employment, informality, migration
- information, communication and digital technologies (ICDTs) and development
- development theory, policy and practice
| Indraneel Dasgupta | Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata |
| Sabyasachi Kar | Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi, India |
| Kenneth Bo Nielsen | University of Oslo, Norway |
| Rajeswari Sengupta | Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, India |
| Carol Upadhya | National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru, India |
| Lipika Kamra | Queen Mary University of London, UK |
| Rudrani Bhattacharya | National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), India |
| Tanika Chakraborty | Indian Institute Of Management–Calcutta, India |
| Priya Deshingkar | University of Sussex, UK |
| Taniya Ghosh | Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India |
| Amanda Gilbertson | University of Melbourne, Australia |
| Farzana Haniffa | Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| Shareen Joshi | Georgetown University, USA |
| Nida Kirmani | School of Humanities and Social Sciences, LUMS |
| Kanika Mahajan | Ashoka University, Haryana, India |
| Vidya Mahambare | Great Lakes Institute of Management, India |
| Rajesh Raj Natarajan | Associate Professor in Economics, Sikkim University, India |
| Patrik Oskarsson | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden |
| Anuradha Patnaik | Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, India |
| Selim Raihan | University of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Indrajit Roy | University of York, UK |
| Anirudh Shingal | S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, India |
| Aardra Surendran | IIT Hyderabad, India |
| Raphael Susewind | King's College, London, UK |
| Chinmay Tumbe | IIM Ahmedabad, India |
| Parag Waknis | Ambedkar University, Delhi, India |
| Bina Agarwal | University of Manchester, UK |
| Amita Baviskar | Ashoka University, India |
| Sonalde Desai | University of Maryland, USA |
| Rajat Ganguly | Murdoch University, Australia |
| Katy Gardner | London School of Economics and Political Science, UK |
| Barbara Harriss-White | Oxford University, UK |
| Vegard Iversen | University of Greenwich, UK |
| Ravi Kanbur | Cornell University, USA |
| Khalid Nadvi | University of Manchester, UK |
| Geert De Neve | University of Sussex, UK |
| Kunal Sen | UNU-WIDER, Finland |
| Ashutosh Varshney | Brown University, USA |
| Arjan Verschoor | University of East Anglia, UK |
| Dushni Weerakoon | Institute of Policy Studies, Sri Lanka |
| Andrew Wyatt | University of Bristol, UK |
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