"road to development" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the process of gaining knowledge, skills, and resources in order to achieve a goal. For example, "The government is committed to providing the citizens with a smooth road to development."
TV makers will keep moving to (or opening factories in) low-cost, high-skill labor locations that become available as less-developed countries engage on the road to development.
And there are many bumps along the road to development that can slow progress.
Nevertheless, "Paths to Progress" falls well short of setting forth an alternative road to development for the world.
But at the same time 56% of respondents see a market economy as the road to development (up from 47% last year).
"Looking back at the development of China's capital market, we realise that the road to development has not always been smooth, but has instead been a twisting one with ups and downs.
But just like so many great innovations the road to development was far from easy largely because there was little appetite for funding research on molecules that, at the time, had no clear applications.
"In Rwanda, we prefer a fast road to economic development, but we opt for investment projects that offer security for current and future generations, rather than unsustainable development," said Ms. Mukankomeje, from the environmental management authority.
In the road to economic development, new technologies can have dramatic effects in improving people's livelihoods and accelerating growth.
But it might at last put Ecuador on the road to economic development—if Mr Mahuad is given the chance to make it work.
Now, after the change, we will help them build their democracy, and we will help them further on the road to economic development, which started this problem".
What Mubarak, like so many dictators before him, could not accept was that his own exit from the scene is a prerequisite for civil peace and an unavoidable step necessary along a long road to democratic development.
