JOHANNESBURG - Small businesses have long complained that excessive bureaucracy, slow approvals and complex regulations are making it harder to work. Government has now launched a national campaign ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced the largest economic development deal in state history one year ago. The $20 billion deal involves two massive Amazon data centers for cloud computing and ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul outlined 50 actions her administration is taking to slash red tape and unnecessary fees that will help untangle residents from state government’s bureaucracy. The governor announced ...

Despite repeated directives to ease the burden on local officials and curb formalism, many of China’s cadres still find themselves trapped in a frustrating cycle of working harder yet achieving fewer ...

Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke is to write to all agencies under his remit to demand they eliminate unnecessary red tape. It comes as the Coalition tries to eliminate unnecessary administrative ...

May is Small Business Month, a celebration of the entrepreneurs, workers, and neighborhood organizations that help make ours the greatest city in the world. Whether it’s the corner bodega, the local ...

New York City has let outdoor dining — a lifeline to restaurants during the pandemic and since — stagnate, issuing less than a fifth as many permits this spring as it did during the height of the ...

A vocal band of Colorado software engineers and venture capitalists are increasingly grumbling that their tech haven in the Rocky Mountains is devolving into the place of their nightmares: California.

MESA, AZ — The Trump administration is addressing housing affordability by cutting red tape, the U.S. Housing and Urban Development secretary said Thursday. HUD Secretary Scott Turner said the ...

New energy projects face up to four-year waits just to connect to the grid, with permitting now taking as long as actual construction. Germany nearly doubled its wind and solar installations between ...

A GOP-linked group is urging Congress to slash red tape on the Pentagon’s defense acquisition process, a restructuring aimed at prioritizing shorter timelines for delivery, expanding the industrial ...