The phrase "lagging development" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe a situation or process in which progress is slower and less successful than expected or desired, or in which something is not developing or improving as quickly as it should. For example, "The high unemployment rate in the region is indicative of its lagging development."
"Consistently high [gross domestic product] growth, privatization of all state-owned banks, lagging development of local capital markets and foreign investment have all driven rapid expansion".
"Chinese culture led in the world's for 2,000 years, but since the last 300 years, because of our lagging development and the invasion of foreign cultures, we have more or less lacked confidence in our own culture," Wang said.
His remarks are equally applicable to India, with a population of more than half a billion, and to dozens of other nations where lagging development threatens to provoke uncontrollable chaos.
They noted that it was possible that wages were lagging developments in the labour market to some extent.
Lagging developments in low and middle-income countries are in fact open opportunities with rewards for intellectual individuals given the simple fact that it is where the majority of the human populations reside.
However, supervisors' leadership was found not to predict a lagged development in the empowering ILT of the VET-students, as indicated by the lack of any significant interaction effect between supervisors' leadership and time.
The freedom deficit undermines human development and is one of the most painful manifestations of lagging political development".
The present rapid urban growth of cities from developing countries causes negative externalities such as lagging infrastructure development.
The Arab spring showed how civil forces – poor governance, lagging economic development, high youth unemployment – exacerbated regional upheaval and violence.
Though the report pays homage to the argument that the Arab-Israeli conflict and Israeli occupation have been both a cause and an excuse for lagging Arab development, it refuses to stop with that explanation.
Archer: Look for Wall Street to continue to be concerned about trade wars, iPhone unit volumes and lagging AI development.
