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While bureaucratic excess, entrenched corruption, and other inefficiencies beg remedy, the real challenge before India is its allegiance to a twentieth-century vision of modernity.
That old bureaucratic paternalism, Thaksin knew, was ripe for overthrow.
The group soon grew to seven, and later broadened in scope and membership – including Russia and a vast bureaucratic and press apparatus – to become the G-8.
But this could change as dollars become hard to resist and Cubans use them to cut through ridiculous bureaucratic hurdles.
Yet their solution – to reduce the role of the state and allow market forces to take over – is actually what fuels cumbersome bureaucratic expansion.
Having learned from the collapse of the Soviet Union that a bureaucratic ruling party must co-opt new social elites to deprive potential opposition groups of leaders, the Communist Party has conducted an effective campaign of expanding its social base.
Such assistance should be forthcoming, and in order to avoid bureaucratic overlap and turf conflicts, the responsibilities and priorities in dispensing it should be spelled out and agreed upon in advance by the government and these organizations.
American conservatives argue that a large public sector is subject to inefficiency and mismanagement, corruption, and bureaucratic abuse, while the taxation needed to support it blunts economic efficiency.
Policymakers must make it easier to move goods across borders, by improving connectivity between countries and reducing bureaucratic hurdles and administrative costs.
As Secretary-General, Ban has lived up to his self-styled vision of being the consummate diplomat, and has made some important gains in tackling the UN's bureaucratic bloat as well as dealing with the Middle East.
Reduced to a highly technical and bureaucratic process, enlargement became almost totally devoid of any moral and political ethos.
Inevitably, for many the EU appeared to be a bureaucratic monster.
The diplomatic Europe, incarnated by EU founding father Jean Monnet, took big, sensitive questions out of the sphere of popular politics and reduced them to manageable technical issues that diplomats could address through bureaucratic compromises behind closed doors.
This is a classic bureaucratic response: faced with a problem, create a new institution.
The federal government must promote national-level goals; impose tough criteria for project selection and rigorous performance metrics in construction and maintenance; and push state and local governments to eliminate bureaucratic red tape and costly internecine squabbles.
To be sure, behind the Union’s great schemes lurks another EU, one that is excessively bureaucratic.
There is dismay at the bureaucratic rigidity and gigantism of the 80,000 pages of the acquis communautaire, which they have to adopt before being let in to the club.
The form of those politics – unhinged tweet-storms, bald-faced lies, racist and misogynistic pronouncements, and blatant nepotism – is so bizarre and repugnant to the bureaucratic class that it can overshadow the substance.
Here is an attractive, intelligent young leader of the Left with a belief in social solidarity and a strong social conscience -- but with none of the paranoia so evident in Europe about global competition and American domination and very little interest in the massive bureaucratic structures of trans-national integration which in Europe have become identified with left-wing ideals.
He may even offer an alternative vision to the bureaucratic bankers' Europe promoted by Helmut Kohl and the Franco-German centre-right.
To revert to the example of Depression-era Italy: the state holding-company edifice created to save the banks and maintain confidence proved to be an increasingly bureaucratic and costly burden on the Italian economy.
Since they lack the legitimate authority of elected or high-level appointed officials, bureaucratic entrepreneurs must remain cognizant of the need to balance initiative with loyalty.
But so do bureaucratic bottlenecks that provide easy cover for defendants and permit the state to avoid its responsibility.
This requires a smoothly working and much more efficient interface between the agencies and the European Commission, which retains overall control over them, as well as a thorough revision of the financial regulation for the entire operation and its oft-criticized bureaucratic red tape.
Government public affairs and public diplomacy efforts are slowly beginning to reorient staffing, schedules, and bureaucratic culture to engage the full range of today’s media.
Indeed, the UN's wanton sacrifice of science and technology to its own bureaucratic self-interest creates significant obstacles to innovation that can help the poorest of the poor.
While markets are imperfect, regulators are not only human but bureaucratic and subject to political influence.
In Malawi, for example, where nearly everyone farms for a living, a confidential study by the British government this year found that “the agricultural extension service has collapsed,” a victim of the same bureaucratic ineptitude and petty corruption that undermines public services throughout this poor country.
Misled by this confusion, Venezuelans and Bolivians enthusiastically support the rebirth of state companies, without realizing that this only wastes resources that could have been spent better and more efficiently elsewhere, since few state companies ever succeed in ridding themselves of bureaucratic inefficiency or corruption.
It relies on competition, rather than bureaucratic heavy-handedness, to achieve its goals.
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