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On Bureaucracies, Poverty and Corruption

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Posted by: CareTaker on May 1, 2008 Under: Africa, Discussion Lounge, Editor's Pick



Akin writes about “role of bureaucracies in stifling development, progress and economic growth”:

Corruption is exacerbated by the layers and hoops of unnecessary bureaucratic requirements that simply keep pen-pushers and deadwood in their positions of unwarranted privilege as enemies of change – people need to get things done and the only way to smooth out any activity is to grease grubby palms…The best thing any government of a developing country can do is reduce layers of bureaucracy, bureaucratic irrelevance and the people who feed that system – time to register companies, accumulation of unnecessary information, provide access to relevant economic data without strictures and nip all sources of patronage in the bud.

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  1. Misi | May 1, 2008 | Reply

    In an ideal world it would be wonderful to strip developing countries of all its bureaucracy but will that ever happen. Probably not. Even in so-called developed countries bureaucracy still exist maybe not as much.

  2. Omotaylor | May 3, 2008 | Reply

    Bureaucracy I think was included in the dictionary for a reason hence will always remain with the people, in administration and government, for always. And as Misi said, this cuts across all countries no matter their level of development. The pity is that it is mismanaged so badly in developing countries.

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