The word 'bottlenecks' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation where progress is blocked due to a lack of resources or other limiting factors. For example: "The company's growth is being hindered by bottlenecks in communication between departments."
There have been reports of misdiagnosis, low motivation due to a narrow career progression, or of referral bottlenecks where clinical officers, unable to diagnose adequately, simply represent an additional level of referral.
Mike Warmington, microfinance partnerships manager, One Acre Fund, London, UK, @oneacrefund Individuals are limited without finance: The sustainable development goals are about unlocking the bottlenecks that are preventing individuals from reaching their potential – access to education, access to water/sanitation, global health challenges.
Anger is growing as hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the quake were yet to receive aid because of logistic bottlenecks, poor infrastructure and a chaotic government response.
There were other bottlenecks besides customs.
This makes the economy more vulnerable to a hard landing.India cannot grow as fast as China without igniting inflation because of its lower investment rate, particularly in infrastructure, and labour bottlenecks.
Brazil must also get rid of "supply-side bottlenecks", noted Christine Lagarde, the IMF's chief, who visited Brazil in May.
Bottlenecks on the conventional Lanxin line have frustrated efforts to exploit huge demand for coal in the east.
At the "exit", meanwhile, convicts do not benefit from Brazil's theoretically world-class laws on parole and alternative sentences like community service.A shortage of legal advice for prisoners helps to explain both bottlenecks.
Mr Calderón has identified many of Mexico's bottlenecks.
Whereas a special UN panel currently reviews all imports to Iraq save the most harmless, the new proposal would allow most goods through automatically, and only review particularly suspect items.This would undoubtedly cut back on the current bottlenecks in the system.
Standard Chartered thinks that Africa could become a significant manufacturing centre.Formidable obstacles to Africa's continued progress loom, among them political instability, the weak rule of law, chronic corruption, infrastructure bottlenecks, and poor health and education.
