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E-mail  <a href="mailto:xiss@xiss.ac.in">xiss@xiss.ac.in</a>&nbsp;</font></span> <table border="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#CCFFCC">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <p style="word-spacing: 0; text-align: justify; tab-stops: 441.0pt; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><font color="#0000FF" face="Verdana" size="3">Aims and Scope:</font></span></b></span></p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1">J<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">JDMS is a multi-disciplinary quarterly journal of development and management studies. It welcomes research articles on development and management at global, national, and regional context. Keeping the people at the centre stage, it seeks to explore ways of improving their standard of living by examining potential solutions to poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, disease, environmental degradation, displacement, ethnic and</span></font></span></p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6" align="left"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA" lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1">gender discrimination, civil conflicts, and lack of popular participation in developmental programmes. Its ambit also includes human resources in the arena of organizational development, total quality management, benchmarking, work culture, organizational leadership, information management, and quality of life in public, private and third sectors.&nbsp;</font></span></p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6" align="left"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"><font face="Verdana" size="1">Each issue focuses on a specific theme. Authors can write papers from global or local perspectives. Papers can be theoretical as well as empirical. Each paper should come up with policy implications. JJDMS also publishes review papers, executive experiences, and book reviews.<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">&nbsp; </span></font></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><font face="Verdana" size="2"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">&nbsp;</span></font></span></p> <table border="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" bgcolor="#CCFFCC">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <p style="text-align: justify; word-spacing: 0; tab-stops: 441.0pt; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" color="#0000FF" size="3">Audience:</font></span></b></span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 6; margin-bottom: 6"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1">Development practitioners, practicing managers, policy makers, government executives, scholars, and researchers, in the fields of development, human resource, information, and rural management including those in disciplines of economics, sociology, psychology, political science, geography, anthropology, agriculture, forestry, management/ administration, and urban and regional planning.</font></span></p> </td> <td width="34%" height="1" valign="top" align="center"> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 3; margin-bottom: 3"><font face="Verdana" size="1"><img border="0" src="JJDMS2.gif" width="180" height="266"></font> <hr> <p align="center" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1">JJDMS is published&nbsp;by&nbsp;</font></span> <p align="center" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> Fr.Pradeep Kerketta, s.j.&nbsp;</font></span> <p align="center" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> for the Xavier Institute of Social Service</font></span><p align="center" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> Dr. Camil Bulcke Path, P.B. No. 7</font></span> <p align="center" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> Ranchi- 834 001, Jharkhand, India</font></span><p align="center" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1">Phone : 0651-2200873</font></span><p align="center" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> Fax : 0651-2315381</font></span><p align="center" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1">e-mail : <a href="mailto:xiss@xiss.ac.in">xiss@xiss.ac.in</a> &nbsp;</font></span> <p align="center" style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Verdana" size="1"> Website : <a href="http://www.xiss.ac.in">http://www.xiss.ac.in</a>&nbsp;</font></span> <hr> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" height="21" colspan="2"> <table border="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="1" valign="middle" align="center"> <hr> <table border="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%" height="33"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="4" valign="middle" align="center"> <table border="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%" height="73"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="44" valign="middle" align="center"> <table border="1" cellspacing="1" width="87%" height="12"> <tr> <td width="31%" align="center" height="13" bgcolor="#CCFFCC"> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="edito.htm">EDITORIAL BOARD</a></font></span></td> <td width="35%" align="center" height="13" bgcolor="#00FFFF"> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="current.htm">CURRENT AND BACK ISSUES</a></font></span></td> <td width="34%" align="center" height="13" bgcolor="#00FF00"> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="theme.htm">THEMES FOR FORTHCOMING ISSUES</a></font></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="31%" align="center" height="1" bgcolor="#FFFF00"> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="guideline.htm">GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS</a></font></span></td> <td width="35%" align="center" height="1" bgcolor="#C0C0C0"> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="subscrip.htm">SUBSCRIPTION</a></font></span></td> <td width="34%" align="center" height="1" bgcolor="#FFCC66"> <p style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><font size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="regform.htm"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">REGISTRATION FORM</span></a></font></span></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <table border="0" cellspacing="1" width="100%" height="33"> <tr> <td width="100%" height="21"> <hr> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="center"><a href="mailto:webmaster@xiss.ac.in"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Webmaster</font></a> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin-right: 1.75in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><b><font face="Verdana" size="1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt"> </span></font></b></p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-top: 3; margin-bottom: 3">&nbsp;</p> <p style="word-spacing: 0; line-height: 100%; margin-top: 3; margin-bottom: 3">&nbsp;</p> </html>