《世界发展》（World Development）是联合国开发计划署出版月刊。World Development is a multi-disciplinary monthly journal of development studies. It seeks to explore ways of improving standards of living， and the human condition generally， by examining potential solutions to problems such as: poverty，unemployment， malnutrition， disease， lack of shelter， environmental degradation， inadequate scientific and technological resources， trade and payments imbalances， international debt， gender and ethnic discrimination，militar