Ilmi Granoff, head of green growth,Overseas Development Institute, London, UK, @theilmatic It's essential that Africa leapfrogs the outdated development path followed by the big polluters, as it has already done for mobile phone technology, mobile payments, and pay-as-you-go off-grid solar.
It would be a vehicle for jettisoning outdated development models based on large public sectors that have failed to generate sustained growth, productivity gains, inclusiveness or poverty alleviation.
The main reason for this bias is probably the outdated development of the model, and a new EuroSCORE development study is presently being performed.
Similarly, several thousand acres of vacant military land in Oakland, Alameda and San Francisco has been sitting fallow for nearly 30 years while already-outdated development plans wind their way through the regulatory process.
That regulation probably made sense three decades ago, but it became increasingly outdated with the development of automatic sprinkler systems, fire service elevators and better building design that allows faster evacuations.
Parallel to these events, and currently outdated by the development of molecular approaches, a flurry of data accumulated during decades of work showing that, following transplantation, embryonic or even adult cells, may change their fate and adopt that of the surrounding cells.
Ratings agencies' models for creditworthiness may be outdated given new developments in financial markets, like the explosion in popularity of the kinds of securitizations that underpinned subprime mortgages in the United States.
References to the so-called interactions between ions and the colloid lasted for some decades [ 139, 140], but the colloid concept progressively became outdated with the developments of enzymology and molecular biology [ 63].
They contended that an eight-year-old environmental impact statement was outdated, given the new development, and that a supplement was needed.
"The Chinese government is focused on a very outdated understanding of macroeconomic development, thinking that it will bring everyone up to the same level, but it's clearly not working," said Sean R. Roberts, a professor at George Washington University who studies development in the region.
He intended it as the first part of a monograph on three-valued logic, which however was never completed, probably because Łukasiewicz became dissatisfied with the rather hybrid approach which was already being outdated by his rapid development.
