The phrase "a measure of development" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing indicators or criteria that assess the progress or growth of a particular entity, such as a country, organization, or individual.
Example: "The increase in literacy rates is often seen as a measure of development in a society."
Alternatives: "an indicator of progress" or "a gauge of advancement".
The money, $10 million in a community preservation fund to buy environmentally significant land from willing sellers, is itself a measure of development in the town.
While pro-growth strategies can and have reduced inequality in the past – Peru is a good example of this – low wages should not be a measure of development success.
For years, as sectarian violence roiled and raged across southern Iraq, the autonomous region of Kurdistan in the north was held up as the exemplar for the benighted country, a place where peace had brought stability and a measure of development.
Both of these previous studies used economic indicators as a measure of development.
States such as Para in Brazil, along with cities like Bogota and Rio de Janeiro in Latin America and Somerville in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, are starting to use the SPI as a measure of development success.
Dissatisfaction over the use of the monetary poverty line and GNP per capita as a measure of development outcomes has led to the development of social indicators that recognize the inherent multidimensionality of deprivation.
The EVT-2, measuring expressive English language development, was selected for its validity and reliability as a measure of the development of expressive oral language and appeal to young children, as well.
In addition, our study found a strong association between head circumference, a measure of brain development that is also strongly associated with fetal growth and school age cognitive performance, after adjustment for multiple concurrent home, environment and biologic factors.
Articles on visual development were included after a review of the abstracts revealed that it was being used as a measure of neural development.
(In some cases, purchase agreements with foreign suppliers include provisions for a measure of indigenous development and assembly and thus the transfer of technical knowledge and skills).
In the 2013 Networked Readiness Index of the World Economic Forum, a measure of countries' development of the Internet and other technological capabilities, Ecuador ranked 91st out of 144 countries, although it was ahead of many of its South American neighbors, including Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela (another country increasingly mentioned as a possible destination for Mr. Snowden).
