Editorial Process
The review process of the IJDC is designed to provide authors with timely decisions. All submissions will receive an initial in-house review to filter out manuscripts that are inappropriate for various reasons such as excessive length, falling outside the scope of the journal, or generally lacking the requisite quality to warrant demands on referees’ time. The remaining manuscripts will be peer-reviewed under the supervision of the editor for the relevant subfield. The review process will be double-blind with referees and authors remaining anonymous. Referee reports will be advisory but not definitive in the editors’ decisions. Revise and resubmits will be used sparingly.
To have a better understanding you may kindly refer to the Aims & Scope of the Journal on the Home Page.
Submissions
The Journal publishes highly regarded, peer-reviewed work at the intersections of development, conflict, and public policy. It welcomes contributions that advance empirical and theoretical insights in these areas.
On behalf of GIM, the Centre for Public Policy & Governance (CPPG) has been managing the Journal since 2024, Volume 14, Issue 2.
Submissions should be made in MS WORD by email to the IJDC Editorial Office. Submissions should be non-anonymous, double-spaced, and with 12-point font. The first page of the manuscript should contain only the paper title; names, affiliations and email addresses of all authors (corresponding author should be indicated if more than one author); an abstract of not more than 150 words; keywords; and JEL codes.
For any inquries about paper submissions please write to The Editors, IJDC at: editor@ijdc.online. Also, feel free to write to Prof. Partha Gangopadhyay, or Prof. Nitin Singh or to Prof. Sebastian Morris.
The journal issues from Volume 3 (2013) onwards are available for download. Volume 1 (2011) (Issues 1,2 and 3) and Volume 2 (2012) (Issues 1,2 and 3) are not open access. The copyright is with World Scientific Connect. Kindly use the links mentioned in the Issues Page (Volumes 1 and 2) to download from World Scientific Connect. You may also use the bibliographic subscriptions of your library to download articles and papers in these issues.
Citations and References
Citations should conform to the style guidelines of the American Economic Review: Style Guide (https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/policies/sample-references). References must be provided in alphabetical order, at the end of the paper.
Figures and Tables
After a manuscript is accepted for publication, graphics for the final version must be submitted as separate files. When supplying color figures or halftones (photos), ensure that there is sufficient contrast to enable clear black and white printing. Use either Times New Roman or Arial typefaces on all figures. Do not put boxes around figures. Halftones should be supplied in 300 dpi resolution.
Copyright
Contributions submitted to the IJDC should be original and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. Contributors warrant that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright and will indemnify the Goa Institute of Management of any breach of such warranty. As an online, open-access journal, authors who publish in IJDC will release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License 3.0. This license allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given. Click here for more information on this license.