The phrase "aiding development" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing support or assistance in the process of growth or improvement, often in relation to economic, social, or personal development.
Example: "The organization focuses on aiding development in underprivileged communities through education and healthcare initiatives."
Alternatives: "supporting growth" or "facilitating progress".
Thomas L. Friedman (column, Oct. 19) gives prominent place to aiding development in other countries in his strategy for fighting the right war.
In our experience, genuine volunteering organisations will sell these trips as ways of self-improvement for young people, rather than making claims about them aiding development".
Last year, a wangba owner in the province of Zhejiang challenged the restrictions in court saying that despite its social harm, computer gaming has the potential of aiding development of information technology in China.
Despite the prominence of west Africa on the world music scene, music in Uganda has the "breath and depth I know in no other place," he added, as he introduced music performed by members of the Uganda Dance Academy at an event organised by the Guardian and London Sinfonietta to celebrate African music and to explore its role in aiding development.
Perhaps western minds are so trained to the secular communities in which we live, that we neglect to acknowledge the spiritual climate of many communities we work in and how meeting the spiritual needs of individuals may play an intrinsic role in aiding development.
Searching for the safety of a U.S. Treasury note and the thrill of aiding development in South Africa?
Functioning legislatures aid development.
Inside their incubators, the infants look cosier than I recall, enclosed in little "nests", which aid development.
Some neonatologists say babies receiving music therapy leave hospitals sooner, which can aid development and family bonding and save money.
"We must rethink the world's priorities on aid, development, research and education".
The Chad government also raided a "Future Generations Fund" that would have aided development projects after the oil runs out.
