Aim and Scope


Journal of Public Policy and Governance is peer-reviewed international research journal that deals with both applied and theoretical issues in all fields of Public Policies and Governance. The scope of the journal includes:

• Development of rural non-agricultural industries
• Public contract law, procurement and business regulations
• Environmental and energy law, public health
• Constitutional/e-government/local government/administrative law
• Digests/commentary, legislation analysis/critique
• Court decisions, jurisdiction
• International legal theory, international treaties
• International dispute settlement, child custody-abduction
• Transport law, law of common areas (sea, space, Antarctica)
• Criminal law, incl. foreign/security policy, defence policy
• Human rights, civil liberties, labour law and social policy
• Arms control law, law of armed conflict and collective security law
• Terrorism, genocide, human security, antidrugs policy
• Media law incl. public sector information
• Taxation/trade/law, international economics, money regulation
• Public law fundamentals (legislative procedures/judicial protection)
• Governance
• Governmental and trans-governmental regulation
• Banking stability
• Banking supervision
• Banking policy
• Financial markets and stability
• Fiscal policy
• Fiscal risk management
• Public debt policy and management
• Monetary policy
• Regulation and law
• Institutional organization
• Investment management policy
• Competition policy
• Institutional voting policy
• Crisis management: forecasting and control
• Sovereign risk and management
• Labour and regional economics
• New developments in the international monetary system
• Foreign trade and policy
• Technology economics
• Labour economics
• Business in transitional economies
• Economic reform in developing countries
• Globalisation and its impact upon economics and business
• Uni, bi and multi-lateral trade and investments
• Inward and outward foreign direct investments
• Development of service sectors
• Growth and development strategies
• Poverty
• Income and wealth distribution
• Infrastructure
• Human capital
• Public budgeting
• Public administration
• Public management
• Inflation
• Unemployment
• Agriculture
• Microfinance • Regional development
• Political economy of growth and development
• Agricultural economic theory and policy
• Agricultural markets
• Agricultural trade
• Agricultural investment
• Rural finance
• Resource economics and environment protection
• Agricultural R&D and extensions
• Employment, labor use and migration
• Rural sociology
• Development economics