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Your article seems to imply that the process is inordinately difficult in India, but I'd challenge you to locate a country/jurisdiction that wouldn't put you th
by danans 6y ago
Your article seems to imply that the process is inordinately difficult in India, but I'd challenge you to locate a country/jurisdiction that wouldn't put you through a rigorous process to convert a plot of agriculturally zoned land into a factory.
Maybe Shenzhen? But that's hardly agricultural anymore from what I've heard. I imagine you'll find few, and I suspect the infrastructure will be very poor in those places.
If you want no red tape, you need to go somewhere desperate for your investment enough to waive environmental, social and health protections, like parts of Sub Saharan Africa.
And in fact this is what many Indian and Chinese companies do. Just be ready to line the pocket of the local strongman.
- vikramkr 6y agoI got the impression that the complaint was more about the bribes and all than the regulations meant to protect the land
- danans 6y agoI agree that the bribes are horrendous. But they're also what you get from a system that incentivizes corruption. You can't expect Indian bureaucracy to be like German bureaucracy, because the incentives are so different for the players at ground level. The alternative is to pay public servants well and charge a very large fee for the permits to finance that. Then, deal corruption on top of that without impunity. However, the culture itself has to support that. The culture of demanding bribes for documents shows that there's a parallel market in play to which the bureaucratic system has been subverted.
- xfer 6y agoPublic servants are paid well(if they get paid in time, some incompetent departments are failing their employees) along with amenities. So Bribery in india is mostly a cultural problem.
- danans 6y ago> Public servants are paid well > So Bribery in india is mostly a cultural problem. Apparently not well enough. When it's a few here and there you can argue that it's a character issue. When it's pervasive, there's a problem with the incentive structure. I also wouldn't be so quick to condemn the culture, and I'm not so sure you can disentangle the cultural from the economic anyway.
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