'developmental impact' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to the potential long-term effects of certain experiences or events on personal and/or societal development. For example: The study examined the developmental impact of growing up in poverty.
I tried not to think about the developmental impact of technology on brain chemistry.
The company aims to harness the potential of ICT for a positive developmental impact on quality of education through its range of UbiSlate/Aakash tablets.
The debate is about what the right balance is between strong regulation of businesses and finance to enhance developmental impact and ending red tape to allow creativity to thrive.
But in an era of dizzying financial complexity this state of affairs leads to uncertainty about the financial strength of MDBs, resulting in conservative financial policies that limit their developmental impact.
That is measured in terms of political, social, economic, developmental impact etc.
These findings could mean that the spatial developmental impact of the Olympic Games limited at the regional level.
The neurotoxic and developmental impacts of lead have been well known to both consumers and businesses for decades.
"There is very little large scale evidence around actual developmental impacts on children.
By collating promising development activities and policies in different sectors from various Asian countries, this volume presents an overview of how local level actions can enhance developmental impacts.
Furthermore, civil society contends that this benchmark is arbitrary, in that the fiscal and developmental impacts of extractives projects "occur irrespective of the size of a country's total revenues".
The study took into account local, long distance, and seasonal traffic patterns; environmental, agricultural, and developmental impacts; connections with arterial highways; and the ability to build the limited-access highway in usable sections.
