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Journal of Applied Development Economics is blind reviewed international journal that publishes research, intensive articles, and scientific manuscripts focusing on all aspects of Development Economics. The journal seeks research papers from around the world discussing the aspects related to the development and its applied versions.

SCOPE

This journal focusses on themes based on development economics and its applied areas including demographic economics, urbanization, migration and its impacts, labour economics, business economics, industrial organization, employment, agricultural economics, social economics, education economics, engineering economics, inequality and its issues, financial economics, health economics, monetary economics, domestic and international policies, exchange and trade, economic growth, public economics, and education economic, development history. (This is not an exhaustive list; any other related topic can be included).

All papers submitted to JADE undergo a rigorous peer review process by leading experts. The review process normally takes 4 to 8 weeks. When the review process is complete, the Editor-in-Chief will inform the author(s) about the results of the evaluation process. Based on each reviewer’s evaluation, the Editor will accept the manuscript for publication (without any improvement, with minor revision, or with major revisions) or will reject it.

INSTRUCTION TO AUTHORS

Papers must be in English

Papers for publication should be sending in duplicate to the Editor-in-Chief:

Editor-in-Chief: Ms. N.Shradha Varma, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Maitreyi College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, E-mail: shradhavarma90@gmail.com or editorjade@gmail.com

Electronic Submissions should be sent in MS Word format to: editorjade@gmail.com 

Submission of a paper will be held to imply that it contains original unpublished work and is not being submitted for publication elsewhere. The Journal does not accept responsibility for damage or loss of papers submitted. Submitted manuscripts that exceed 25 pages cannot be considered.

Submission of a paper accompanied with a disk is encouraged. The paper file should be in MS-WORD or PDF format. Manuscripts should be double spaced, with wide margins, and printed on one side of the paper only. All pages should be numbered consecutively. Titles and subtitles should be kept as short as possible. References, tables, and figures should be printed on separate pages.

The first page of the manuscript should contain the following information: (1) the title, (2) the name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s), (3) an Abstract of not more than 100-200 words, (4) up to 4 key words, and (5) up to three JEL classification codes. A footnote should also provide information on the name, address, telephone number, fax number, and E-mail address of the corresponding author.

Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numerals. They should appear at the end of the main text and should not include tables, figures or formulae.

Formulae should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript as (1), (2), … against the right-hand margin of the page. If the derivation of the formulae has been abbreviated, the full derivation should be presented on an Appendix.

References should appear in the text as Smith (1992) or Smith et al. (1998). The author should make sure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence  between the names and the years in the text and those on the reference list. The reference list should appear at the end of the main text, before tables and figures. It should be listed in alphabetical order by author’s name. References should appear as follows:

For monographs: Hansen, J. D., 2001. European Integration: An Economic Perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

For contributions to collective works: Laursen, F., 1995. ‘On studying European integration theory and political economy’, in F. Laursen (ed.),

The Political Economy of European Integration, European Institute of Public Administration, Kluwer Law International, Maastricht. For periodicals: Wyplosz, C., 1997. ‘EMU: why and how it might happen’, Journal of Economic Perspectives 4, 3-22. Journal titles should not be abbreviated

Tables should be numbered consecutively in the text in Arabic numerals and printed on separate pages. The author(s) should point where the table should be inserted in the text.

Figures (illustrations) should not be inserted in the text, and should be marked on the back with figure number and appropriate explanatory legends, and/or sources, and/or notes.

They should be numbered in Arabic numerals and consecutively. The author(s) should point where the figure should be inserted in the text

Articles published in this journal are classified by the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) the journal also classified by Cabell’s Directory Publications.