Bureaucracy

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Thoughts

How to kill a great idea in 10 easy steps

A guide to how companies bury great ideas under the weight of bureaucracy and forget about them

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Thoughts

For democracy to work, you need a non-partisan bureaucracy

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Thoughts

How Bangladesh’s public administration fails its people

Adviser Nahid Islam speaking at the 77th foundation training course for BCS cadre officers at the Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre in Savar. Photo: UNB
Bangladesh

Young generation wants to establish a merit-based and professional bureaucracy: Adviser Nahid

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Supplement

Modern Bureaucracy: From Weber to Evans

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Bangladesh

Civil society's concern about bureaucratic barriers 

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Bangladesh

50 days and 500 promotions: Civil admin still struggles with stagnation

There are 21 lakh buildings in the 1,500 square kilometres under Rajuk, six lakh of which are five-story and above. Around 30% of these six lakh buildings are vulnerable. Photo: TBS
Bangladesh

Bureaucracy main bar to ensuring Dhaka's livability: Experts

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Bangladesh

Serious bureaucratic reforms needed to build a smart Bangladesh: Salman F Rahman

Challenges to making bureaucracy accountable in Bangladesh
Thoughts

Challenges to making bureaucracy accountable in Bangladesh

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Bangladesh

Held hostage by bureaucracy, bemoans ruling party MP

Hasan Rahman, the retired NASA engineer holding a prototype of Taalpata, says policies should change to support tech companies. Photo: Noor-A-Alam
Panorama

Taalpata: A NASA engineer’s dream to make Tk12,000 laptops caught in bureaucracy’s web

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Panorama

Why its too early to get excited about an ‘empowered’ bureaucracy