Aims & Scope
The purpose of JAD is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between academicians and practitioners and to disseminate the results of empirical and theoretical research, policy issues, and practical applications to as broad an audience as possible. The JAD is published two times per year and provides a unifying forum for continental African financial and economic development issues including, but not limited to:
- Debt crisis
- International trade and finance
- Intervention in international trade
- Trade policy, agreements, integration
- Exchange rate policies
- Agricultural economics, finance, and policy
- Financial intermediation and capital markets
- Fiscal and monetary policy issues
- Models of economic development and growth
- Regional and continental African economic community issues
- Economic planning
- Special studies in adaptive innovation paradigms in African economic regimes, appropriate technology
- Comparative studies of development paradigms in other developing continents, Latin America and Asia
- The emerging economic dimensions following the one-currency based European Economic Community and the new economic reforms in Russia and Eastern Europe and their relevance to African economies
- Accounting issues in Africa including:
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- International accounting standards and comparative practices
- Foreign currency translation
- Financial reporting and disclosure
- Auditing
- Managerial accounting
- Transfer pricing and international taxation
- Management issues in Africa including:
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- Organization behavior and theory
- Human resource management
- Production and strategic management
- Entrepreneurship and small business management
- Comparative management
- International Business in Africa including:
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- International acquisitions and joint ventures
- International business environment
- International business theories of trade and investment
- Multinational corporations
- Marketing issues in Africa including:
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- Regional market agreements and South-South trade
- Economic, cultural, political and legal aspects of marketing in Africa
- Consumer behavior and advertising
- Marketing management, planning and strategy
- National marketing boards
- International marketing
- Marketing research
- Real Estate issues in Africa including:
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- Land resource economics
- Property rights
- Impact of institutional factors on land use
- Housing policy
- Mortgage finance
- Infrastructure Development
- Land tenure
- Real estate market in Africa
- Law and development in Africa including:
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- Constitutional economics
- Law and markets in Africa
- Regulation of private business
- Political economy of Africa including:
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- Public finance and public choice
- Government growth, taxation, and income distribution
- Rent-seeking and the economy
- Political institutions and economic policies
- Public ownership of business
- Economics of Education
- Population Economics
- Reviews of books on important issues related to African development