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As demand for land and land prices increased, corruption became rampant, with some politicians, industrialists, and bureaucrats using the lack of transparency in land ownership and zoning to misappropriate assets.
As evidence emerged of widespread corruption in contracts and resource allocation, ministers, bureaucrats, and high-level corporate officers were arrested, and some have spent long periods in jail.
But the relationship between Turkey and the EU should not be limited to accession talks among leaders, diplomats, and bureaucrats; the process should involve ordinary people on both sides of the discussion.
The bureaucrats of the European Union plan to catch Malta, Cyprus and Slovenia, as well as bigger fish in Eastern Europe.
It should acknowledge that, except in emergencies, international bureaucrats cannot dictate sovereign choices.
Systemic reform requires recognizing and atoning for two original sins: not only that of bureaucrats who made money by abusing their power, but also that of capitalists who made money by breaking the rules.
Another source of fiscal and economic distortion comes from the semi-official merchants, or bazaaris, whose businesses account for 10% of GDP, and who enjoy, together with various bureaucrats, special privileges such as access to hard currencies at special rates.
Bureaucrats and the communist way of bureaucratic governance remains.
Bureaucrats, not businessmen, controlled the “commanding heights” of the economy, and India shackled itself to statist controls that emphasized distributive justice over economic growth, stifled free enterprise, and discouraged foreign investment.
The “permit-license-quota” culture of statist socialism allowed politicians and bureaucrats to use public service as a vehicle for private gratification, giving birth to a culture of corruption that still persists.
It is impossible to quantify the economic losses inflicted on India during four decades in which entrepreneurs frittered away their time and energy applying for licenses rather than manufacturing products; paying bribes instead of hiring workers; wooing politicians instead of understanding consumers; and “getting things done” through bureaucrats rather than doing things for themselves.
Indeed, Japan’s powerful bureaucrats, normally assumed to know what they are doing, appeared to be as helpless as elected politicians.
Decisions emerged from murky negotiations and hidden rivalries between bureaucrats, imperial courtiers, politicians, and military officials, often pushed this way or that by various domestic and foreign pressures, some of them violent.
The post-war political order, though no longer belligerent, was just as murky, with bureaucrats acting as the puppeteers of underfunded and ill-informed politicians, who operated regional pork-barrel operations together with big business, which in turn worked in cahoots with the bureaucrats.
Tight-knit cliques of bureaucrats and corporate officials made sure that a utility company vital for economic growth would never be hindered by strict regulation or political oversight.
The cozy relationships between government officials and the corporate world – and not just in the case of TEPCO – was reflected in the large number of retired bureaucrats who took jobs on the boards of companies that they had supposedly regulated.
One of the DPJ government’s stated goals was to increase the political system’s transparency: less hidden authority for bureaucrats, more responsibility for elected politicians.
They were punished for having done the right thing and for having done it alone, which made them look like dangerously naive idealists at best, and like inefficient bureaucrats at worst.
When Japanese firms operate at the frontier of industry, bureaucrats cannot choose the winners.
The problem is that bureaucrats like the power that regulation affords them.
WASHINGTON, DC – Every spring, international bureaucrats flock to Washington, DC, as reliably as swallows to Capistrano, for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, where they exchange information about their local economies and policy prospects.
The astronauts themselves were eager to return to space, but the bureaucrats were unwilling to send them.
The key task now is not so much to bury communism's remnants as to overcome the corrupt and inept bureaucratic/oligarchic state in which bureaucrats are simultaneously entrepreneurs and politicians, and in which obeying the law is not mandatory but somehow negotiable.
Worse, a country where 70% of the members of parliament are teachers and bureaucrats, as is the case in Germany, cannot hope to get dramatic legislative change.
The cultural orientation of bureaucrats and teachers is deeply anti-market, anti-risk taking and in love with the status quo.
A handful of influential ADB bureaucrats with large salaries, secured pensions, comprehensive health insurance, subsidized housing, and education for their children, have apparently decided that financing subsidized housing, health, nutrition, and child protection programs is not a priority.
Nor does it address deficiencies in existing legislation that prevent challenges to the rules on which agencies base their decisions or to the exercise of discretion by bureaucrats.
But regimentation by bureaucrats stifles.
With the so-called Agenda for Sustainable Development having been quietly finalized by diplomats and United Nations bureaucrats last month, the leaders are expected just to smile for the cameras and sign on the dotted line.
He banned business-class travel and expensive government retreats, sacked allegedly corrupt senior officials, and began streamlining complicated regulations that crooked bureaucrats exploited to extract hefty bribes.
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