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What is required is a policy on the part of the global community that mixes military strength with a willingness to negotiate and interact, a policy of collective strength and collective
flexibility.
Reforms that increase the
flexibility
of the labor market are also in order.
Greater
flexibility
might not stimulate short-term growth, but it would improve resilience to future negative shocks, whether they originate at home or abroad.
Yet, with even a little flexibility, the Round could still succeed.
That is why I recently proposed a measure to provide firms with more
flexibility
on mark-to-market requirements and to facilitate asset transfer from the trading book to the banking book.
A certain amount of labor-market rigidity may make economic sense for jobs that require firm-specific skills and training, alongside greater
flexibility
for jobs that require fewer skills.
But the past is not necessarily prologue: given the remarkable
flexibility
of market forces, it would be foolish, if not dangerous, to infer rising inequality in relative incomes in the coming decades by extrapolating from recent trends.
That means redistributing some of the economic benefits of free movement to communities bearing the burden of it; strengthening control of external borders and cooperation against terrorism; ensuring greater
flexibility
for eurozone integration and migration; and returning to the idea that EU institutions’ highest calling is to defend Europe’s nation-states, not to develop their own power.
Renzi has already called for a €150 billion EU investment boost and greater fiscal
flexibility.
There are plenty of other false dichotomies: centralisation or decentralisation; uniformity or diversity; rigidity or
flexibility.
That’s why Chinese authorities should move to greater
flexibility
now, and not wait until it is too late.
Under Hollande, France’s Socialists favor achieving that renewal through a process of social dialogue that convinces rather than imposes, that focuses both on revenue measures and on boosting government efficiency, and that may adopt some of northern Europe’s more successful “flexicurity” policies, which combine greater labor-market
flexibility
with strong social protection.
Increased currency
flexibility
would allow China’s central bank to use monetary policy to enhance China’s financial and price stability.
And the rest of the world wants the
flexibility
afforded by the currency of the largest, strongest, and most stable economy.
He has also given the schools
flexibility
concerning when and perhaps how to introduce it.
Since nearly all schools are dependent on government subsidies, the grant of
flexibility
is widely perceived to be a tactical delay.
Under current fiscal rules, achieving this goal will require some
flexibility
to allow countries with particularly high levels of unemployment to finance innovative labor-market policies and job-creation programs.
For example, responding to the ACA’s incentives and flexibility, Arkansas and Oregon have launched bold experiments to revamp Medicaid, in part by rewarding health-care providers who deliver better outcomes and keep patients healthier.
By allowing for exchange-rate flexibility, this approach would also enable the central bank to avoid the twin hazards that arise in a currency union: undervaluation, which produces inflationary pressure, and overvaluation, which demands wrenching internal devaluations (driving down real wages).
But, regardless of who leaves first, any countries trading in the euro for their defunct national currencies would, like an independent Scotland, have to determine the right degree of exchange-rate
flexibility.
For example, while a fully floating currency would create a beneficial combination of discipline and flexibility, it might best be delayed in favor of an adjustable (“crawling”) peg to some anchor currencies.
Finally, the GCC needs to favor greater exchange-rate
flexibility
and monetary independence.
Today’s emerging countries have considerable policy
flexibility
and much greater latitude to act than they had in the past.
LNG has now added a degree of
flexibility
to gas markets and reduced Russian leverage.
And, in fact, most Europeans favor a different means, based on greater
flexibility
for domestic preferences and a bottom-up approach toward further integration.
What Greenspan suggests is that the labor market
flexibility
gap between the US and Europe may be more important in explaining relative economic performance than the alleged technology gap.
Superficially, France looks as if it has become more of a welfare state, but the reality is that the French have mimicked the Dutch in increasing labor market
flexibility.
In 2012, the government implemented sweeping labor-market reforms to increase companies’ internal
flexibility
(making it easier to dismiss permanent workers and facilitating wage moderation), and introduced a model for reducing workers’ hours.
It is the benign upshot of responsible labor unions, which allow for appropriate firm-level wage
flexibility.
After all, while America’s early-twentieth-century race laws are gone, it still has the same overheated democratic order and common-law
flexibility
that it had back then.
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