Flexibility
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In this context, a new strategic paradigm that allows for greater flexibility, adaptability, and autonomy amid significant uncertainty is crucial.
Despite the chorus of voices condemning austerity, labor-market flexibility, and so on, there is a reasonable chance that these are the reforms that will be pursued.
The benefit is simple: ERM II permits some exchange rate flexibility, as opposed to the fixed rates implied by adopting the euro.
A few years of limited exchange rate
flexibility
is a poor substitute for rapid completion of structural reforms.
In Europe, structural reforms focus on higher retirement ages and labor-market
flexibility.
The World Economic Forum still rates the American economy as the world’s most competitive, owing to its labor-market flexibility, higher education, political stability, and openness to innovation.
Though the exact details remain to be decided, such steps might include more exchange-rate
flexibility
in China, and perhaps a promise from the US to show greater commitment to fiscal restraint.
Government officials also need the skill and
flexibility
to work with local communities, private businesses, international organizations, and potential donors.
Moon will also have more
flexibility
than his conservative predecessors to accommodate a US-led Iran-style deal aimed at freezing North Korea’s nuclear and missile activities.
Countries like Germany that reformed labor laws to create more
flexibility
for employers, and did not raise wages rapidly, seem to be in better economic shape than countries like France and Spain, where labor was better protected.
Argentina’s Peso, because it is pegged to the US dollar, provides little
flexibility.
Not only has Italy’s new prime minister, Matteo Renzi, ramped up anti-austerity rhetoric;France plans again to delay meeting its obligation to reduce its deficit to below 3% of GDP within two years, and is calling for more
flexibility
in implementing the eurozone’s fiscal rules.
Similarly, where structural reforms should rein in price growth by encouraging competition, leaders like Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, finding it increasingly difficult to marshal support for unpopular measures, are watering down already-modest proposals to enhance labor-market
flexibility.
Instead, Europe will have to rely on wage
flexibility
to enhance the competitiveness of its depressed regions.
But recent cuts in public-sector pay in Spain and Greece are a reminder that Europe is, in fact, capable of wage
flexibility.
This type of decentralization and
flexibility
is difficult for governments to accomplish, given their central accountability structures.
The greater
flexibility
of non-governmental organizations in using networks has given rise to what some call “the new public diplomacy,” which is no longer confined to messaging, promotion campaigns, or even direct governmental contacts with foreign publics serving foreign-policy purposes.
These are thought to provide
flexibility
in how proteins function, in a way that may be connected to nearly-neutral mutations.
Having entered the 2008-2009 crisis with sound initial conditions (including large international reserves, budget and balance-of-payments surpluses, and highly capitalized banks), they are nowhere near exhausting their fiscal and financial
flexibility
– and hence their capacity to respond to future shocks.
Indeed, to insist on greater labor-market flexibility, without ensuring that workers, who face a constant need to adapt to technological disruptions, can rely on continuous social-safety nets, is to advocate a lopsided world in which employers have all the
flexibility
and employees have very little.
Italy’s government must also fulfill its promise of further improving labor-market
flexibility
and fighting corruption, including in the form of nepotism.
The UN can be a much more effective instrument if its member states in the General Assembly and the Security Council are better organized and give clearer directives to us in the Secretariat – along with the
flexibility
to carry them out – and then hold us clearly accountable.
Obama’s infamous open-mike remark to Russian Prime Minister Dimitri Medvedev that he would have more
flexibility
after the election may have shocked some, but, for most foreign-policy experts, he was stating the obvious.
The good news is that these economies have substantial room for such rebalancing, as well as the policy
flexibility
to accomplish it.
This is particularly true of greater labor-market flexibility, a key asset for long-term growth that can lead to a short-term increase in unemployment.
Financial stability, strong productivity,
flexibility
and dynamism make the US one of the choice places for capital, and this influx of capital finances America's large current account deficits.
Straying outside of those parameters would lead to warnings and sanctions, but otherwise there would be some
flexibility
for member states to pursue the EU’s collective goals at a pace adapted to their national circumstances.
But those who decided that price stability should be the ECB’s single, overriding policy goal may have shot themselves in the foot, not least by denying policymakers much-needed
flexibility.
The fact that things often do not work out as expected is precisely why central banks’ objectives should be written to give policymakers
flexibility
– or poetic license to bend the rules – when extreme events occur.
Faced with the choice between short-term economic stability and currency flexibility, Chinese policymakers are choosing stability.
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