"paths of development" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a variety of different types of development, such as the progress of a project, the education or career path of an individual, cultural changes in society, or the growth of a business. For example, "The business is exploring new paths of development to expand their market share."
This actually implies a vision of the individuals' own paths of development for developing within the organization.
They argue that past outcomes, having become embedded in national institutions, prompt social groups to organize along particular lines and thereby lock states into paths of development.
Researchers in Israel have converted human embryonic cells into heart muscle, and other groups are working out ways to drive the cells down paths of development that lead to brain and pancreas tissue.
Biologists try to drive the cells down particular paths of development by exposing them to the chemical signals and physical stimuli the cells are thought to experience in the developing embryo.
Tempting though it is to seek a single explanatory model for those very roughly contemporaneous processes, one should perhaps allow that different paths of development were followed in different areas, even in areas next door to each other.
Notwithstanding the skepticism of what has been said above, some solid general points can be made about the tyrannies mentioned (Athens and Sparta followed peculiar paths of development and must be treated separately).
"There needs to be an internal debate within the developing countries about what is the path of development we want to have," Mr. Rao said.
Climate change in the developing world is a hindrance in the path of development.
They know they have to take the path of development.
We firmly stand on the path of development of democracy, of a market economy.
As he matured, however, Lievens did not sustain a clear path of development.
