If we break up NASA and build a vital, multipartite space agency in its place, won't it, too, succumb to bureaucratic paralysis?

Common ICT platforms enabling officials from different departments to move seamlessly between roles can help to break down the silos that often anchor us in bureaucratic paralysis.

During the mid-1990's, bad weather, the collapse of Soviet-style farming and bureaucratic paralysis combined to create a famine that foreign aid groups estimate killed about two million people.

It has been the subject of mounting public criticisms of bureaucratic paralysis, processing delays and denials of due process in its benefits and pension programs.

With no site plan to discuss and the Cappelli company's representatives declining to answer environmental questions, however, the hearing quickly became an example of bureaucratic paralysis.

He also accused the board of "bureaucratic paralysis," saying that it had used the lack of a database and other administrative glitches to "excuse their inaction."

"Instability brings bureaucratic paralysis," he said.

The startling rise in applications since - 130,000 are expected this year - has until recently been met with bureaucratic paralysis.

Investors cite erratic supplies of electricity, the cavalier attitudes toward contracts, a small domestic market and bureaucratic paralysis.

Diplomats have started calling it "bulimic" instead, because sharp doses of reform are followed by long periods of chaos, inactivity and bureaucratic paralysis.