World Development

期刊简介：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, militarism and civil conflict, and lack of popular participation in economic and political life.

【译文】《世界发展》是一份多学科发展研究月刊。它寻求通过审查以下问题的潜在解决方案来探索提高生活水平和人类普遍状况的方法：贫困、失业、营养不良、疾病、缺乏住房、环境退化、科技资源不足、贸易和国际收支失衡、国际债务、性别和种族歧视、军国主义和国内冲突以及缺乏民众参与经济和政治生活。