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Corruption. Bureaucracy is responsible for a lot of corruption. Getting things done in the government is meeting a lot of people and filling a lot of forms. Br
by ratpik 11y ago
Corruption.
Bureaucracy is responsible for a lot of corruption. Getting things done in the government is meeting a lot of people and filling a lot of forms. Bribing is sometimes the shortest path to get work done.
Having interoperable data systems, forms that can be filled online and an easy way for citizens to understand the law and fill the papers without a human touchpoint would make things much more seamless and transparent.
P.S. - Low level corruption might not be such a big deal in the developed countries but is an efficiency drain on about 70% of the global population living beyond that.
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- effie 11y agoSo the root problem is oversized bureaucracy, corruption is a consequence?
- ratpik 11y agoThe root has more to do with the socio-economic status of the population. In a country where everyone made more or less the same and worked about the same and respected each other the same, corruption would be an anomaly. Long term solution is to improve the fundamentals - education, inequality, access to basics.