The ISDA Journal is a peer reviewed 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 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 E – Journal.