And, of course, the persistent complaints of corruption and bureaucratic red tape have not faded with liberalization.

Saudi Arabia seeks to run its oil production independently, while Iran scares off potential investors with bureaucratic hurdles and corruption.

This would help to eliminate corruption, by making bureaucratic functions more transparent and preventing officials from rewarding themselves at the public s expense.

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.

Many indigenous communities and non governmental organizations are ready partners when such endeavours demonstrate good will, and freedom from political corruption, military domination and controlled bureaucratic procedures

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.

Turkey s Failed Bureaucratic Coup

Brazil is still an enormously bureaucratic country, with an educational system in crisis, very high taxes, mediocre infrastructure, impediments to the creation of businesses, and a high level of corruption.

Detailed, concrete, no bureaucratic speech.

And, of course, the persistent complaints of corruption and bureaucratic red tape have not faded with liberalization. The country s infrastructure remains woeful, as any visitor flying into an Indian airport notices.

So this was the pre bureaucratic age.

There was also bureaucratic resistance from existing regulators.

Similarly, some of the preconditions, such as elimination of malfeasance and corruption, reduction of bureaucratic regulations, openness of the economy and an effective State, apply equally to the encouragement of development assistance and of foreign direct investment.

Nor should it be restricted to hierarchical bureaucratic organizations.

November 9, 1989, was one of those rare moments when irony reigned, because East Germany s bureaucratic socialism died as it had lived with a bureaucratic snafu.

Well, I'm afraid you're going to suffer a short, condensed history lesson about what I would say are the three passages of history the pre bureaucratic age, the bureaucratic age and what we now live in, which I think is a post bureaucratic age.

Reforms to patronage systems most often produce bureaucratic merit systems.

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. But each of these propositions is refuted by the Nordic experience.

It is no longer a traumatic experience, just a bureaucratic hassle.

In any case, the political consequences overshadow legal or bureaucratic issues.

I welcome Medvedev s emphasis on social concerns and his anti bureaucratic rhetoric.

Leadership degeneration accelerates as the autocratic regime ages and grows more bureaucratic.

Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.

This change was associated with the shift from aristocratic to bureaucratic government.

Larger bureaucratic organizations can benefit from the flexibility of teams as well.

It relies on competition, rather than bureaucratic heavy handedness, to achieve its goals.

Bureaucratic and judicial reform ought to have priority in most countries in Latin America.

Obtaining approvals is a lengthy process that involves substantial documentation and tedious bureaucratic procedures.

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.

This was the pre bureaucratic age, an age in which everything had to be local.

So we're now living in a post bureaucratic age, where genuine people power is possible.

As bureaucratic decision making became more risk averse, many large projects ground to a halt.

The same is true in systems where there is a strong sense of bureaucratic entitlement.

Cheney was better known as a ruthless bureaucratic operator than a man of bold ideas.

Existing bureaucratic obstacles have an enormous cost for business, as well as for state revenues.

That is that people talk about corruption, corruption.

Their instinct (and their bureaucratic interest) is to defend their countries national champion bank(s) abroad.

Others, however, see a Chinese strategy that is confused, contradictory, and paralyzed by competing bureaucratic interests.

Other bureaucratic decision makers, for their part, are increasingly constrained by requirements of transparency and disclosure.

Bureaucratic entrepreneurs, on the other hand, take advantage of such opportunities to adjust and promote policies.

While markets are imperfect, regulators are not only human but bureaucratic and subject to political influence.

To be sure, behind the Union s great schemes lurks another EU, one that is excessively bureaucratic.

These structures are often rigid, quite bureaucratic, dominating by men, and as such, intimidating for women.

These people emerged under conditions created in deeply inequitable societies by a misapplied, inconsistent, and bureaucratic war.

Unlike 30 years ago, no strong force for political reform now exists in China s vast bureaucratic system.