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The essence of bureaucracy is complexity, which is the greatest barrier of all to start-ups.
Cartels, anti-competitive invoicing practices, senselessly closed professions, and a bureaucracy that has traditionally turned the state into a public menace would soon discover that our government is their worst foe.
And in Europe, there are plenty of legitimate grievances: austerity, widespread youth unemployment, a democratic deficit in the EU, and an overloaded bureaucracy in Brussels.
Corrupt regimes, through intimidation and bribery, insisted on the loyalty of the bureaucracy, police, and armed services.
Since taking office last August, Ahmadinejad has installed Hojatieh devotees in his cabinet and throughout the bureaucracy.
Most obvious is the new European General Staff now being formed in Belgium, whose work will inevitably duplicate what NATO already does, while adding yet another military bureaucracy, with its administrative support, extra pay and allowances for service abroad, mass of documents in two languages and more.
But EDI will provide no additional troops and no added combat training – joint exercises are mostly ritualistic – while requiring yet more spending on bureaucracy.
While the criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn on sexual-assault charges now seems highly uncertain, the ensuing press focus on the IMF suggests an uncontrolled international bureaucracy with unlimited expense accounts, dominated by men with little sense of restraint.
Outside observers often forget that reform in China involves changing the oldest, largest, and most complex bureaucracy in the world.
To be sure, the IADB – never as stodgy as the Bretton Woods twins, but still a traditional international financial bureaucracy – does not speak of industrial policies; it uses the politically correct phrase “productive development policies” (PDPs).
Once the bureaucracy and broad parameters for the negotiations are established by early next year, May will formally launch the withdrawal process by invoking Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon.
Worst of all, the OSCE's bureaucratic nature means that it will never have an incentive to leave because the first duty of a bureaucracy is to perpetuate itself.
New political forces in the Arab world, Islam-inspired or social-democratic, will have to propose policies that do not just perpetuate rent-seeking capitalism or reliance on a discredited state bureaucracy.
In Africa, such an approach is particularly noxious because there is no real commitment on the part of African rulers to unity, which offers the prospect of creating a bureaucracy with no mission but to waste Africa's scarce resources.
In order to enjoy the same low transaction costs that they have in exporting, China’s entrepreneurs need a much better business environment: an effective legal system, a sound regulatory framework, a government that protects their brands by fighting intellectual-property theft, dependable logistics and distribution networks, and a graft-resistant bureaucracy.
Whereas our economy is now characterized by choice, customization, and participation, our politics remains stifled by bureaucracy, special interests, and entrenched-yet-declining political parties.
Yet skeptics might say: must we really add yet another set of letters to the alphabet soup of global bureaucracy?
Moreover, for every South Korea, and every Hong Kong, we can also find developing countries where expanding education merely fueled competition for white-collar jobs in a bloated, deadweight state bureaucracy.
(A "military first" programme ensures diverts most supplies to North Korea’s huge standing army and bureaucracy.)
Aside from a humanitarian crisis, with thousands drowning each year trying to reach Europe and thousands more detained, there is the soaring expense of border controls and bureaucracy, a criminalized people-smuggling industry, and an expanding shadow economy, where illegal migrants are vulnerable to exploitation, labor laws are broken and taxes go unpaid.
Because the bureaucracy tightly controlled banks and allocated credit, for example, chaebols expanded investment by cultivating good relations with bureaucrats and bankers.
So casual and systematic was this collaboration, indeed, that when the IMF package was announced December 3rd, the bureaucracy had little or no idea of the scale of debts Korea had accumulated, nor even a clear picture of the foreign exchange reserves held by the Bank of Korea.
One feature of Italy’s turbulent politics remains consistent: the control exercised by entrenched interests, and the dominance of a bloated and inefficient bureaucracy.
What much of the world sees in Putin's Russia is a neo-authoritarian regime based on a state-directed capitalism interlinked with the ruling bureaucracy and flanked by an immature civil society.
The UMNO’s program has put Sharia law, Sharia courts, and an extensive Islamic bureaucracy in place, a collective effort that has taken on a life of its own.
After Iran or Saudi Arabia, Malaysia’s Sharia court system is probably the most extensive in the Muslim world, and the accompanying bureaucracy is not only big but has more bite than the national parliament.
But at least 300 million hens who would have lived miserable lives in standard battery cages are now in significantly better conditions, and there is great pressure on the EU bureaucracy to enforce the ban everywhere – not least from egg producers who are already complying with it.
By contrast, when former President Jiang Zemin became General Secretary of the Communist Party following the Tiananmen crackdown in 1989, he was able to rely on capable and loyal officials in Shanghai to run the bureaucracy; he then expanded his support base by co-opting other factions in the 1990s.
After consulting the IMF, the government has pushed insolvent banks to merge or face bankruptcy, allowed for the first big layoffs of workers, and "downsized" the bureaucracy through a strict reorganization.
Indeed, contrary to popular belief outside China, the Chinese state is not monolithic; it is a highly complex bureaucracy with many layers of government and quasi-government institutions that do not always conform to central directives.
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