Flexibility
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When the Kim Young Sam government did try to ram through labor reforms designed to increase labor flexibility, it was met with violent labor protests and quickly climbed down.
Although bound to be controversial, especially in an election year in the United States, enough
flexibility
should be given to the renminbi in both directions when it is needed.
The big losers from this economic disaster are workers in the advanced countries that bought into the laissez-faire
flexibility
of American-style capitalism.
Many OECD countries initiated various kinds of
flexibility
reforms in the hope of improving their economies along US lines.
The view that
flexibility
is the key factor in employment is no longer tenable.
But, although the eurozone certainly has plenty of room to improve, the crisis has brought much progress in terms of integration and
flexibility.
Finally, at the individual level, greater
flexibility
could also be built in at the pump, through the promotion of flex-fuel vehicles of the type already in use in Brazil.
But much greater
flexibility
is advisable in other areas, including commitments to refugee re-allocation and eurozone rules, where excessive rigidity could cause European unity to buckle and snap.
The EU’s goal, achievable only with
flexibility
and courage, must be to remain a viable project – and thus be one of the authors.
In a fiat-money world without fractional reserve banks, OMF is an obvious strategy: indeed, without it, positive nominal GDP growth might be difficult to achieve, and optimal real growth might therefore require an unattainable downward
flexibility
in nominal wages and prices.
Another way the US Army is maintaining flexibility, resiliency, and depth in the Asia-Pacific region is by placing pre-positioned stocks – strategic stockpiles of critical combat equipment – on allies’ territory.
In the initial aftermath of the financial crisis, it was widely assumed that currency
flexibility
gave the United Kingdom an advantage over eurozone members like Spain.
Such flexibility, by allowing for slight incremental changes over time, would provide investors with greater certainty, as it would sweep aside today's worries about whether or not China can keep its exchange rate fixed at today's level or sharply devalue the RMB downward.
Whether or not China will enjoy such
flexibility
again depends on regional stability.
How fast this happens partly depends on the private sector’s
flexibility
and dynamism.
In some countries with high levels of debt and impaired growth, fiscal stimulus could raise the risk premium on sovereign debt and be counterproductive; others have more
flexibility.
Those that have some
flexibility
can and should use it to protect the unemployed and the young, accelerate deleveraging, and implement reforms designed to support growth and employment; others’ options – and thus their medium-term growth prospects – are more constrained.
French policymakers should give priority to a new growth model, based on greater
flexibility
and security for employees, and a leaner, more effective state.
The proper functioning of the gold standard required a high degree of
flexibility
in wages and prices.
Where adaptation to ruthless international competition and rapid technological change calls for
flexibility
and individual responsibility, the dominant culture in France continues to be one of assistance and entitlement.
Job protection benefits the employed at the expense of the unemployed, and some unions, notably the most militant, are strongly opposed to greater flexibility, and have already threatened to block liberalizing measures in the streets.
But the world has moved since the 1970’s in the direction of greater exchange rate
flexibility.
To the extent that this approach reflects the view that policymaking is an art, not a science, that is a good thing: the world needs more
flexibility
in economic policymaking.
And they need to have enough
flexibility
to respond quickly to short-term shocks.
And company-based social benefits in some leading European countries weaken corporate
flexibility
by locking in labor.
Royal will do nothing to increase the
flexibility
of the French labor market so as to facilitate structural change and enable new firms to be created, while Sarkozy is likely to continue to support France’s lumbering giants, as he as done so frequently in the past.
Indeed,
flexibility
does not come naturally to armed forces, with the result that the two decades since the end of the Cold War have seen only slow adaptation to the military’s evolving roles.
Nonetheless, steps can be taken to prevent political deadlock in budget negotiations, while increasing the budget’s
flexibility
so that it can be used to stimulate growth.
The revamped growth compact would more effectively allocate European resources and increase the
flexibility
of permanent transfers from rich to poor countries – provided that the money is used for productive investment.
A little
flexibility
here should also be a helpful message to those getting restless in Taiwan that China really can accommodate difference.
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