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In order to spur growth in online-services delivery, the authorities must also address broader challenges to entrepreneurship, such as India’s cumbersome procedures for starting new businesses.
The cumbersome text created a “presidency council” tasked with appointing a national unity government and an advisory council of ex-GNC members.
Their inadequacies – embodied in a cumbersome system of governance, and in endless, inconclusive summitry – and their lack of democratic legitimacy are being repudiated by millions of voters throughout the continent.
As it stands, key features of that environment – including high man-hour requisites to pay taxes, and cumbersome bureaucratic requirements – make the cost of doing business in Brazil incompatible with complex production chains, while undermining productivity by wasting human and material resources.
But the results have been cumbersome, expensive, and almost never sustainable.
Funding the next intra-eurozone rescue will be rather cumbersome and costly, because financial markets distrust complicated structures like the one set up to finance the EFSF.
Yes, says Brandeis, because they already do, via text, email, and phone: “It’s a cumbersome process, the data are totally unstructured, and doctors wind up repeating themselves, because searching through six months of text messages makes no sense.”
Given MFIs’ bureaucratic structures and frequently cumbersome procedures, institutional investors tend to be skeptical about them.
Over time, post-Brexit manufacturers in the UK may encounter cumbersome new rules for exports to the rest of Europe, and they may even rethink long-term expansion projects; but new non-tariff barriers are not an immediate problem, and the EU is unlikely to go so far as to impose actual tariffs on goods from the UK.
I first became familiar with the DB report when I was an adviser to the Indian government and would look to it for ideas about how to cut India’s notoriously cumbersome bureaucratic red tape.
This past summer, millions of travelers avoided paying cumbersome and expensive charges to change their currency.
The way out may be a cumbersome distribution procedure, such as soup kitchens.
It is better than the more cumbersome methods of regulation now in place.
Indeed, while the diagnostic process – which typically involves sending a sample of blood, urine, or tissue to a laboratory for analysis – may be cumbersome and expensive, health-care providers and sophisticated laboratories remain widely available.
Russia is no longer hampered by communist ideology and a cumbersome central-planning system, and the likelihood of ethnic fragmentation, though still a threat, has waned.
Clinical trials are slow, cumbersome, and costly; many drugs don’t overcome the financial hurdles.
Moreover, as the IMF economist Jacques Polak suggested long ago, the IMF could finance its programs by creating SDRs, eliminating the cumbersome negotiations required to secure credits or raise member quotas.
The International Committee of the Red Cross does negotiate safe passage for technicians to inspect and repair damage to water pipes and storage systems in Iraq, Syria, and Ukraine; but each passage needs to be negotiated with governments in conflict and rebel commanders – a long and cumbersome process.
The deep secrecy of its political system meant that the flow of information was slow and cumbersome.
He also pledged to shrink France’s unwieldy state, which now spends 57% of GDP per year, by reducing cumbersome regulations and rationalizing the outdated welfare system.
We must also make health care less cumbersome, by ensuring that health services are integrated, with patients able to receive all needed services with as few visits to clinics as possible.
The United Nations can play an important role in helping to legitimize and implement agreements among countries, but even its closest friends admit that its large size, rigid regional blocs, formal diplomatic procedures, and cumbersome bureaucracy often impede consensus As one sage put it, the problem for multilateral organizations is “how to get everyone into the act and still get action.”
Finally, the governance of the eurozone remains excessively cumbersome and technocratic.
Yet even in Germany, nothing is as cumbersome and difficult as the never-ending negotiations over fiscal transfers between the federal government and individual states – which is to say, between richer and poorer regions.
Yet today, the Bush administration oversees a cumbersome visa program that has cut the number of such exchanges, particularly with Muslim countries.
First, the JCPOA’s weakest provisions – both cumbersome and open to competing interpretations – are those covering compliance and verification.
Legislative approval is often cumbersome, which is why many countries exempt state-owned enterprises from this requirement, trusting that these companies’ governance structures – their boards of directors and shareholders’ meetings – will act in the best interest of the organization and put effective brakes on irresponsible borrowing.
If traditional criteria, developed in and for the pre-Internet era, prove cumbersome or ineffective, then we should update them.
But if every application of a globally agreed principle requires its own multilateral negotiation, global governance will be slow and cumbersome.
The expectation was that collectives of factory workers, farmers, and even employers would be more capable of arriving at decisions than elected representative assemblies, which had come to be seen as cumbersome and riven by intractable political divisions.
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