The phrase "an engine of development" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that drives or promotes growth, progress, or improvement in a particular area, such as economics or technology.
Example: "Investing in education is often seen as an engine of development for emerging economies."
Alternatives: "a catalyst for growth" or "a driver of progress."
Although widely studied, cross-border connections remain misunderstood, both by scholars convinced that globalization is leading to a deterritorialized world of unbounded loyalties and flows, and by policy makers trying to turn migration into an engine of development.
"The Guggenheim triggered the complete transformation of Bilbao and this fantastic Botín project could provide at least as powerful an engine of development here," Mr. de la Serna said recently in an interview.
Energy is both an engine of development and a source of many of today's economic and environmental problems.
"We all recognize the vital importance of water and sanitation to human health and well-being and their role as an engine of development.
He has only grown as an engine of economic development in Queens, having overseen the church's development of a strip mall, a private school and other residential and commercial real estate projects.
Specifically, Fig. 2 attempts to illustrate the nature and dynamics of an emerging globalization framework in which creativity and innovation (as enabler of technological effort in manufacturing and as an engine of industrial development) can lead to improved competitiveness and sustained development.
Around the world, developing nations are embracing private investment in startups and growth stage companies as an engine of economic development, and are increasingly looking to foreign capital to bring some experienced swagger to their nascent private markets.
Reflecting on the Board's special focus session on equity [video] that was held earlier this week, Vice-President Kasese-Bota said, "In this room, we appear to have all reached a consensus: that equity, prioritizing the most vulnerable children, is an engine of sustainable development and, as such, must be deeply embedded in the Sustainable Development Goals and the post-2015 development agenda.
Recycling is also an engine of economic development.
Long before it became fashionable, he was an advocate of a strong service sector as an engine of economic development.
David Bartlett, the premier of Tasmania, certainly regards high-speed broadband as an engine of economic development for his Australian state.
