Heavy bureaucracy could mean very slow implementation of projects and lead to
corruption, in an attempt to accelerate things by bribing the officials involved. The role of
a government is often greater than needed, giving the officials more power. For these
assumptions I found hard evidence on considering the case of Thailand: table 1 shows
that 79 percent of firms say that they either “always”, “mostly” or “frequently” pay extra
money to the officials to get things done on time /4/. So it could be argued that the
officials force firms to pay higher rates to get the service in an acceptable schedule.