Social Development Issues (SDI: ISSN 0147-1473, eISSN 2372-014X) is an international refereed journal that serves as a forum for achieving linkages between multiple disciplines, nations and cultures. SDI is committed to the advancement of social development, social work, and related disciplines. The journal’s purpose in social development is the promotion and consideration of issues that affect social justice and the development and well-being of individuals and their communities. The journal seeks to publish scholarship that addresses social, cultural, political, and economic issues and their interrelationships in the global context. This includes theory, policy, practice, and research, as well as manuscripts that involve participatory action, organizing, locality development, and social change.

Social Development Issues is a refereed journal of the International Consortium for Social Development (ICSD). First  published in 1977 and has been in publication continuously ever since It is published three times a year in spring, summer, and fall. Social Development Issues was. SDI is an open-access academic journal that offers free reading and professional use to download, copy, disseminate and link to its published articles with due acknowledgements.