《南部非洲發展》是一本國際認可的多學科期刊，專注于南部非洲地區的發展政策和實踐。成立于1984年的數字版權局已成為一個重要的論壇，在社會科學領域提供基于地區的獎學金，并鼓勵那些尋求政策解決方案的地方和區域社會經濟發展挑戰的文章。它仍然是南部非洲多學科（經濟學、社會學、農業經濟學、發展研究、政治科學等）的首選期刊，并發表了有關該地區關鍵發展問題的文章。其中包括貧困、失業、旅游、農業、商業發展、基礎設施建設和其他相關發展主題。該雜志鼓勵定量和定性的政策相關研究文章，簡短的研究筆記，書評和辯論。由于決策者廣泛閱讀DSA，我們鼓勵作者根據本文所傳達的證據提出政策建議。數字版權局還歡迎特刊的客座編輯提出建議，并鼓勵第一次作者為這些主題版共同撰寫文章。

Development Southern Africa (DSA) is an internationally accredited, multi-disciplinary journal focussing on development policy and practice in the southern Africa region.Founded in 1984, DSA has become an important forum for presenting area-based scholarship in the social sciences and encouraging articles that seek policy solutions to local and regional socio-economic development challenges. It remains the southern Africa journal of choice for several disciplines (economics, sociology, agricultural economics, development studies, political science, amongst others), and it publishes articles in respect of the key development issues in the region. These include poverty, unemployment, tourism, agriculture, business development, infrastructure development and other related development themes.The journal encourages quantitative and qualitative policy relevant research articles, shorter research notes, book reviews and debates. As DSA is widely read by policy makers, we encourage authors to make policy suggestions based on the evidence conveyed in the article. DSA also welcomes proposals from guest editors for special issues, and encourages first time authors to co-author articles for such theme editions.