Eulogy for Professor Murray C Kemp
Impact of COVID-19
The unprecedented situation regarding COVID-19 might lead to some delays and changes in the peer review process, particularly in regards to new submissions. We request your understanding and cooperation during this time. In case of any inquiries, please write to the IJDC Editorial Office. We will make every effort to get back to you as soon as possible.
Aims & Scope
As an outstanding field journal in conflict, economic development, and peace, the International Journal of Development and Conflict (IJDC) will provide a truly global forum for researchers for advancing our collective pool of knowledge in the field. The journal will foster scholarship of the highest standard and set a high standard for published papers in terms of their empirical depth, theoretical refinement and methodological rigor. The journal will publish innovative papers addressing the causes of conflicts and violence and the means of economic development to promote and sustain peace.
As a multidisciplinary journal of conflict, economic development, and peace, IJDC invites papers using modern empirical, theoretical and experimental approaches that attempt to explain both determinants and effects of various facets of conflict, economic development, and peace. The focus of the journal is on publishing theoretical, empirical and scientifically based studies to explore causes and consequences of conflict, development, and peace in our complex world. The journal especially seeks papers that address:
Publishing Information
Effective 2013, IJDC is published online in open-access format twice a year in June and December, by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. The entire cost of publication is borne by the Gokhale Institute. Consequently, no fees whatsoever are charged to authors and readers. Send Editorial enquiries to Partha Gangopadhyay, Editor-in-Chief, IJDC. The E-ISSN number of IJDC is 2010:2704.
IJDC is indexed by SCOPUS, EconLit and RePEc.
The Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) has awarded IJDC a quality rating of B in its 2019 review cycle, available here.
Announcements
The Editorial Board of IJDC is committed to enhancing the rating of IJDC as a premium journal. Towards this end, the Editorial Board is delighted to announce the appointment of three distinguished scholars as Editors-in-Chief of IJDC in 2017 to propel future research in Development:
Nicholas Apergis
Nicholas Apergis is a professor of financial economics at the University of Piraeus, Athens, Greece. He holds a PhD in Economics from Fordham University, NY, in 1992, a Master of Arts from the Economic University of Athens, in 1986 and a Bachelor’s from the University of Athens, in 1984. His research interests are with Macroeconomics, Energy Economics, Domestic and International Financial Markets. He has over 230 publications in international journals, while he is considered among the top-20 researchers, in energy and environmental issues, of the globe. He is among top 5% of 50,000 RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) authors.
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Sanjoy Bhattacharya studied in St. Stephen's College (Delhi), Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), and the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). He is a Professor of History of Medicine and the Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories, connected to the Department of History at the University of York, UK; Sanjoy also Heads the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories based in York. His research deals with the history of South Asia, British empire, post-imperial polities around the world, and international health and development. Sanjoy is currently completing work on three books: the first deals with the formation and development of the World Health Organization, whilst the other two are about the circulation of South Asian medical professionals within British empire and their roles in the birth and expansion of the UK National Health Service, and eradication from smallpox from East Pakistan/Bangladesh. He edits the journal Medical History and the monograph series Global Health Histories (both published by Cambridge University Press) and co-edits the New Perspectives in South Asian History (published by Orient BlackSwan India Ltd.). Sanjoy's passion is to study recent policy critically and connect it to policy initiatives around the world; in doing this, he thrives on working with international partners, and has active advisory and collaborative links with government agencies in India, Sri Lanka and Brazil.
Jose Cuesta
In 2016 Jose Cuesta took up his position as Chief of Social and Economic Policy at the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti. He holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford University and most recently worked at the World Bank where he co-directed the Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 flagship report series. He is also an affiliated professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He also worked as a research economist and social sector specialist for the Inter-American Development Bank and as an economist for the United Nations Development Programme in Honduras. Additionally he has participated in research projects in a large number of countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America spanning diverse themes in the social policy field, including poverty, inequality, fiscal policies/incidence analysis, food security, social protection, and citizen security/conflict. Jose’s research interests revolve around poverty and conflict economics, specifically the distributive analysis of social policies; intra-household allocation; social protection and labour distortions. He also studies the interaction between poverty, conflict and culture. A Spanish national, Cuesta has experience from a number of countries in South America, Asia and Africa. He is currently an associate editor for the European Journal of Development Research and the editor of the World Bank's quarterly Food Price Watch, an associate editor for the Journal of Economic Policy Reform.
Impact of COVID-19
The unprecedented situation regarding COVID-19 might lead to some delays and changes in the peer review process, particularly in regards to new submissions. We request your understanding and cooperation during this time. In case of any inquiries, please write to the IJDC Editorial Office. We will make every effort to get back to you as soon as possible.
Aims & Scope
As an outstanding field journal in conflict, economic development, and peace, the International Journal of Development and Conflict (IJDC) will provide a truly global forum for researchers for advancing our collective pool of knowledge in the field. The journal will foster scholarship of the highest standard and set a high standard for published papers in terms of their empirical depth, theoretical refinement and methodological rigor. The journal will publish innovative papers addressing the causes of conflicts and violence and the means of economic development to promote and sustain peace.
As a multidisciplinary journal of conflict, economic development, and peace, IJDC invites papers using modern empirical, theoretical and experimental approaches that attempt to explain both determinants and effects of various facets of conflict, economic development, and peace. The focus of the journal is on publishing theoretical, empirical and scientifically based studies to explore causes and consequences of conflict, development, and peace in our complex world. The journal especially seeks papers that address:
- Economic, political, social, and environmental factors associated with conflict, development, and peace.
- Non-economic factors and their interrelationships with economic factors in influencing conflict, development, and peace.
- Behavioral foundations of individual and group activities to explore causes and consequences of conflicts and economic development.
- Economics of terrorism and strategies to eliminate terrorism.
Publishing Information
Effective 2013, IJDC is published online in open-access format twice a year in June and December, by the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics. The entire cost of publication is borne by the Gokhale Institute. Consequently, no fees whatsoever are charged to authors and readers. Send Editorial enquiries to Partha Gangopadhyay, Editor-in-Chief, IJDC. The E-ISSN number of IJDC is 2010:2704.
IJDC is indexed by SCOPUS, EconLit and RePEc.
The Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) has awarded IJDC a quality rating of B in its 2019 review cycle, available here.
Announcements
The Editorial Board of IJDC is committed to enhancing the rating of IJDC as a premium journal. Towards this end, the Editorial Board is delighted to announce the appointment of three distinguished scholars as Editors-in-Chief of IJDC in 2017 to propel future research in Development:
Nicholas Apergis
Nicholas Apergis is a professor of financial economics at the University of Piraeus, Athens, Greece. He holds a PhD in Economics from Fordham University, NY, in 1992, a Master of Arts from the Economic University of Athens, in 1986 and a Bachelor’s from the University of Athens, in 1984. His research interests are with Macroeconomics, Energy Economics, Domestic and International Financial Markets. He has over 230 publications in international journals, while he is considered among the top-20 researchers, in energy and environmental issues, of the globe. He is among top 5% of 50,000 RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) authors.
Sanjoy Bhattacharya
Sanjoy Bhattacharya studied in St. Stephen's College (Delhi), Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), and the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). He is a Professor of History of Medicine and the Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories, connected to the Department of History at the University of York, UK; Sanjoy also Heads the WHO Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories based in York. His research deals with the history of South Asia, British empire, post-imperial polities around the world, and international health and development. Sanjoy is currently completing work on three books: the first deals with the formation and development of the World Health Organization, whilst the other two are about the circulation of South Asian medical professionals within British empire and their roles in the birth and expansion of the UK National Health Service, and eradication from smallpox from East Pakistan/Bangladesh. He edits the journal Medical History and the monograph series Global Health Histories (both published by Cambridge University Press) and co-edits the New Perspectives in South Asian History (published by Orient BlackSwan India Ltd.). Sanjoy's passion is to study recent policy critically and connect it to policy initiatives around the world; in doing this, he thrives on working with international partners, and has active advisory and collaborative links with government agencies in India, Sri Lanka and Brazil.
Jose Cuesta
In 2016 Jose Cuesta took up his position as Chief of Social and Economic Policy at the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti. He holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford University and most recently worked at the World Bank where he co-directed the Poverty and Shared Prosperity 2016 flagship report series. He is also an affiliated professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He also worked as a research economist and social sector specialist for the Inter-American Development Bank and as an economist for the United Nations Development Programme in Honduras. Additionally he has participated in research projects in a large number of countries in Asia, Africa, Central and South America spanning diverse themes in the social policy field, including poverty, inequality, fiscal policies/incidence analysis, food security, social protection, and citizen security/conflict. Jose’s research interests revolve around poverty and conflict economics, specifically the distributive analysis of social policies; intra-household allocation; social protection and labour distortions. He also studies the interaction between poverty, conflict and culture. A Spanish national, Cuesta has experience from a number of countries in South America, Asia and Africa. He is currently an associate editor for the European Journal of Development Research and the editor of the World Bank's quarterly Food Price Watch, an associate editor for the Journal of Economic Policy Reform.