They resent the use of their foreign exchange to prop up an inefficient bureaucracy and the poor southern regions.

Shanghai has some major joint ventures, but it also has a reputation for an inefficient and sometimes hostile bureaucracy.

We are committed to continuous process improvement - to breaking down the conditions that make for a hidebound, inefficient bureaucracy.

Tenants' complaints made to a tangled and inefficient bureaucracy went unheeded.

The United Nations has long been considered to be a bloated, inefficient bureaucracy.

Other factors are frequently cited, too: an inefficient bureaucracy, the high cost of living, neighborhood politics and patronage.

Fellow immigration specialists believe she will probably focus first on the management problems plaguing the agency's notoriously inefficient bureaucracy.

Its inefficient bureaucracy is already sputtering under the load of a dozen mostly new peacekeeping operations.

It sometimes carries negative connotations of an arrogant or inefficient bureaucracy, much as the term "mandarin" does in English.

For her, it was a vast, inefficient bureaucracy run by arty leftists for their own benefit.