Even its boosters admit it is wrapped in red tape and lacks skilled workers.
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EU, entangle investors in red tape and will deter many from setting up shop in South Africa.
Many Iranian entrepreneurs prefer to run their companies from Dubai these days, to avoid getting tied up in red tape.
Lisa Murkowski (R- Alaska), well-funded by Alaska fishing organizations, has repeatedly tried to tie up the FDA in red tape.
In Kenya the government took the enlightened approach of allowing M-PESA to go ahead, rather than tying Safaricom in red tape.
It was the year Malaysian rap group KRU got entangled in red tape -- and almost paid for it with their domestic concert tour.
It means controlling spending, simplifying our tax code, and reining in red tape that is choking small business owners who want to hire more workers.
He accused Mr Brown of smothering firms in red tape.
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Indeed, from a liberal point of view, the freshly kicked Eurocrats might be less inclined to impose yet more unwanted bureaucracy on a continent already mired in red tape.
An earlier World Bank report showed that, though South Africa is less entangled in red tape than many other countries, its companies find it harder to hire and fire.
What this plan will do is help millions of responsible homeowners who make their payments on time but find themselves trapped under falling home values or wrapped up in red tape.
The checkered flag is currently tied up in red tape: If ISC gets through the hoops of impact hearings on traffic and the environment, it could break ground in late 2008 and open by 2011.
The Europeans also want Israel to guarantee passage of supplies both to the UN agencies that help Gazans keep going and to American outfits that have been trying to complete projects which Israel has tied up for years in red tape.
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He claims an early personal lesson in how red tape is a proportionately bigger burden for the small guy: in college Mr Lindsey faced reams of red tape when trying to set up a summertime hot-dog stall.
The Conservatives claim that teaching has now become so wrapped up in the red tape of endless testing and form-filling that disillusioned teachers are leaving the profession in droves.
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But we could deliver so much more with funds that are currently tied up in government red tape.
In red-tape-bound Delhi, the private share of hospital care has shot up to 40% since investment restrictions were lifted in 1986.
She and her sister-in-law wander around (through the first modern crowds we have seen in a Zhang film) and get snared in bureaucratic red tape.
Napo head Harry Fletcher is also concerned the reorganisation could see an huge increase in red-tape as a new level of regional bureaucracy is created.
However, according to Lou Callister, a lawyer in Salt Lake City, the quantity of red tape in California means that Utah remains a friendlier place to do business.
The chair of the session, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, said the continent needed billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure, but red tape and cross-border problems were getting in the way.
Other NFU concerns include TB in cattle and red tape over sheep tagging.
To win over skeptics, it will need to get off to a fast start and show that it can avoid getting tangled up in its own red tape.
It eased foreign investment restrictions in retail and civil aviation to attract overseas capital, and set up a panel of ministers to clear large industrial projects caught in bureaucratic red-tape.
One of the most important reforms of the past half-decade was brought in by Franco Bassanini, minister for public administration (ie, red tape) in the outgone government, who drastically reduced the number of pieces of paper needed to get a job or start up a firm.
Maybe so, but it's also tangled in a web of red tape that's frustrating auto dealers.
Interior Minister Socrates Hasikos said his ministry is looking to cut red tape in order to attract foreign investment.
These five apparently demanded huge cuts in public pensions and red tape, and a spending cap for future years.
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