The phrase "a development agenda" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to planning, policy-making, or strategic initiatives aimed at fostering growth or improvement in various sectors.
Example: "The government has outlined a comprehensive development agenda to address the needs of the community and promote sustainable growth."
Alternatives: "a growth strategy" or "a progress plan".
While many in the developed world don't view a "development agenda" as applicable to their communities, evidence suggests they might be wrong.
Modi claimed a landslide victory in May's elections after campaigning with a development agenda.
Since 2001, trade ministers have tried, unsuccessfully, to conclude the WTO's Doha Round, focused on a development agenda.
"If people approach it in the right way and we show that this is a development agenda – it's competitiveness, it's jobs – then why wouldn't it be adopted".
America has pursued a development agenda that fuels growth and breaks dependency, and worked with African leaders to help them feed their nations.
Indeed, WIPO recently adopted a "development agenda" to consider different intellectual-property regimes appropriate to the circumstances of a particular country or region.
Indeed, NCDs – like other global challenges, such as climate change – create opportunities to shape a new global partnership for development in a post-2015 development agenda and provide a clear focus and results-orientation for that partnership.
The compiling of a new development agenda is an appropriate moment to call for the reform of such unjust arrangements.
The discussion is particularly timely as the international community reviews its progress toward the fulfillment of Millennium Development Goals and proceeds toward a new global agreement on a post-2015 development agenda (UN 2012).
In her closing remarks, she drew a parallel between gender issues and a broader development agenda.
This laid out a broad development agenda, encompassing gender equity goals along with a much wider scope of sexual and reproductive health services [ 22, 23].
