It is not a common or grammatically correct phrase.
It would be more appropriate to say "dependency on development." For example, "The country's economy has a heavy dependency on the development of its technology sector."
The landscape of post-colonial development is marked by deepening dependency of the developing states on the core states consisted mainly of western developed countries.
Northern-generated information has been criticised for failing to fully reflect the information and market needs of a Southern readership, and open-access schemes intended to improve global information provision may perpetuate dependency of developing-nation researchers on foreign aid and charitable subsidies.
These consequences have been ascribed to the critical dependency of the developing motoneurons on their interaction with their target muscle [ 3, 4], as well as to their increased susceptibility to the excitotoxic effects of glutamate [ 5, 6].
This is especially important as the IDP communities have previous experiences of being offered incentives for participating in various activities including research, creating a potential risk of developing long term dependency.
The decision was at odds with the commonwealth government's priorities of developing the north and ending welfare dependency, she said, as well as boosting tourism.
This prevents a lot of companies from selling because they have so many dependencies in developing a direct relationship with the customer.
Pop psychologists scoff at the kind of dependency I'm developing with TomTom as something of a dysfunctional pattern.
Ideologically claiming the moral high ground, the West set the structure of the global financial system, which is also regulated by the West, to reinforce the doctrine of liberal democracy at the expense of creating dependency in the developing world.
It is also recognised that a certain level of dependency may develop between the participant and the researcher over the study period.
In this way an index of groundwater dependency was developed that ranged from 0 to 12.
An index of groundwater dependency was developed by mapping and ranking three ecosystem types – springs, wetlands streams as follows: Seeps and springs were extracted from the National Hydrography Dataset Plus [16] database and assigned to each HUC12 unit.
