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Tag archive for ‘TSON’
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The Economic Costs of Bureaucracy
A few days ago, I talked about the ecological costs of bureaucracy in Kazakhstan. Today, just for fun I worked up some extremely rough estimates of the economic costs of bureaucracy. According to the Agency for Statistics, the total population of the country on 1 Dec 2010 was 16,417,655 people. Let’s assume that every year, […]
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The Costs of Bureaucracy
Coincidentally, just as the comment thread on Surveys of Expats about Life in Kazakhstan turned to bureaucracy, I came across a report on the automatization of government services for people and e-gov. According to research (I believe done by the Center for Services for the Population or TSON), over a period of ten months in […]
