Word: bureaucratice
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“Yes, I am surprised,” said Chair of the Department of Government Roderick MacFarquhar. “This is a major bureaucratic decision.”
Following 9/11, the U.S. wasted little time identifying and pursuing entities thought to be funding al-Qaeda. But half a year after the bombings in Bali alerted the world to a lethal terror threat in Southeast Asia, intelligence officials and regional diplomats say that a complex web of charities, front...
The entrepreneurship of the poor has produced assets in the “underground economy” worth over $9 trillion. But the poor are prevented from entering the legal realm by bureaucratic runaround. To document the extent of the challenges, Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto describes in The Mystery...
Obtaining land title in Peru required 728 bureaucratic steps; the authorization to build required 207 additional steps in 52 government offices over seven years. Registering the sewing machine—including bus trips, waiting in lines, and filling out forms—required six hours per day for 289 days...
Prohibitive laws plague most developing nations in both rural and urban areas, usually requiring 10-25 years of bureaucratic hassles to obtain property rights. In advanced nations this takes only weeks. Huge underground economies persist from Mexico to Russia, Manila to Cairo, and Haiti to Nigeria.