Aids, malaria, TB and other diseases are reversing decades of development gains and lowering life expectancies.
Even energy storage is percolating into the mainstream after decades of development.
After decades of development, an increasingly nimble, well-informed society is outsmarting the one-party state.
By criticising decades of development policy by the UN and world governments, Osotimehin's remarks are hugely controversial.
She prizes the slower pace of Guangdong, parts of which are still bucolic after two decades of development.
What the Easterner does not understand, he says, is that Alaska is vast enough to handle even decades of development.
Their true value has been made impossible to judge by decades of development prejudiced in their favour.
A corollary is that eradicating it would have a devastating impact unless accompanied by decades of development.
"The sheer scale of the crisis far outstrips the coping capacities of communities and the resources of governments, putting decades of development gains at risk".
A continuously variable transmission, or C.V.T., seemed the answer, but even after decades of development none had made it past mopeds or small, low-powered cars.
In fact, scientists concluded that decades of development and farming had raised the water's acidity and lowered its quality, making it hospitable to non-native animals and plants.
