The phrase "a more positive development" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing improvements or favorable changes in a situation or context.
Example: "The recent increase in community engagement is a more positive development for our organization."
Alternatives: "a more favorable outcome" or "a more encouraging trend".
JOBLESS CLAIMS The decline in jobless claims last week was a more positive development than expected.
Aside from regime change in Iran, I am hard-pressed to think of a more positive development than regime change in Syria.
In a more positive development on the encryption front, U.S. House of Representative lawmakers are attempting to quash recent state-level moves to weaken encryption by introducing proposed legislation to prevent any state or locality from mandating a weakening of security.
In a more positive development, Spears recently released a star-studded remix of her song, "Til the World Ends," featuring Nicki Minaj and Ke$ha.
Higher SOC has also been reported to result in a more positive development of life satisfaction [ 33].
Normal weight girls showed significantly higher change scores than girls with excess weight (p = 0.024) reflecting a more positive development in self-image.
The 2016 evaluation found that firms supported by the Skattefunn scheme demonstrated more positive development in number of jobs and value creation three years after the support compared with similar firms without this support.
The arrival of two high-ranking US officials in Beijing [it's really four] on Sunday signals the willingness of the two countries to push for more positive development in bilateral ties..
In an effort to highlight more positive developments, the conference is expected to back a wide variety of initiatives by the Afghan government, including new legislation for a major crimes task force and anticorruption tribunal, commitments to protect women's rights, and some response to the growing controversy over billions of dollars taken out of the country.
One positive thing in Bernanke's speech — I'm trying to look on the bright side — is that for what seems to me the first time he has more or less acknowledged that we are not, in any real sense, experiencing a recovery: Notwithstanding these more positive developments, however, it is clear that the recovery from the crisis has been much less robust than we had hoped.
This was signalled earlier in the year when the then Foreign Office minister Bill Rammell stated in March that "we have reconsidered the position... in light of more positive developments in Lebanon".
