UNDP: "applied World System research"?

I am wondering to what extent the work of the United Nations Development
Program (UNDP) can be  considered as World(-)System work, in the sense of
being in line with thought prevalent in the World(-)System school a la
Amin, Blaut, Boswell, Chase-Dunn, Frank, Tausch, Wager, Wallerstein and
other senior-league scholars and junior-league WS'ers or wsn'ers.

REFERENCE:
UNDP, Human Development Report 1999

A text search of this report shows that the document does not contain the
words "world system" or "world-system", "Marx" or "Marxist",  "revolution"
(except in combinations like "industrial revolution" or "information
revolution"), neither "socialist" or "socialism", neither
"social(-)democratic". The 7-page bibliography does not mention any of the
above authors, but has one entry each for Khor, Angus Maddison, and Vandana
Shiva. This UNDP report thus ignores the WS school, Marxist, Socialist and
Social Democratic theory.
On the other hand, "democratic", "democracy" and "global governance" are
very much talked about. Furthermore, the report presents, in usual UNDP
fashion, global statistics on inequality etc. There is definitvely a
perception of a world system, even though the expression of a "world system"
is not used. There is no class analysis in a Marxist sense, but
discrimination based on class, gender, nationality etc. is castigated. The
market and global markets are accepted, but they are criticized as producing
unwanted social results. The report calls for "institutions" and "rules" to
prevent those
unwanted effects of (global) markets. Furthermore, UNDP is the
organization which developed the HDI (human development index). The report
also speaks of necessary "empowerment" for those marginalized by the
(global) market system and "solidarity" is mentioned.
This leads me to a question: If the work of the historians, sociologists and
political scientists of the world(-)system school is "fundamental"
or "theoretical" WS research, would UNDP's work qualify as "applied WS
research" (not
excluding the possibility of other kinds of "applied WS research")?

Gert Kohler
Oakville, Canada