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If France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, manages to obtain sufficient backing in the National Assembly in the June election, perhaps he could do something about reducing France’s structural government spending, while pursuing tax cuts and improved labor-market
flexibility.
In the case of many of these commodities, world prices have declined sharply during the period (at least relative to the cost of imports), but the poorest countries lack the
flexibility
and innovative capacity to shift to new types of production, much less to produce entirely new products not previously seen in world markets.
Another possibility would be to exploit, on an ad hoc basis, the existing
flexibility
in EU treaty provisions.
Such “structural flexibility” is better adapted to enabling the broad changes that rapidly evolving technological and global economic forces require.
But built-in
flexibility
would help build a partnership with willing neighbors.
You can't imagine the extent of its flexibility," he said.
The economist Mario Monti, who followed Berlusconi as Prime Minister, attempted a real depreciation, introducing greater
flexibility
into the labor market in order to force the unions into wage concessions.
By the same token, the brain shows enhanced activity during acute stress, with improvement in certain types of memory, but undergoes structural changes that increase anxiety and decrease mental
flexibility
and memory capacity as a result of chronic stress.
The Lisbon Treaty offers a fundamental redesign of how the Union works, but, despite the pressing need to enhance EU institutions’ mobility and flexibility, it is still awaiting ratification.
And, to address volatile capital flows, countries should increase exchange-rate flexibility, maintain adequate international reserves, and implement carefully designed capital controls.
Europe craves the opposite mix: more monetary flexibility, fiscal policies that reduce taxation and national debt, and a labor policy that makes Europe's labor markets more akin to America's.
The only employment policy that makes sense reduces fiscal burdens on the cost of labor and increases
flexibility
in the market.
Europe is trapped in a vicious circle: those employed recoil from more
flexibility
and the risk of losing their jobs.
So the unemployed ask for more social protection, instead of flexibility, increasing the fiscal drain on the economy.
Computing became decentralized, and the new
flexibility
produced a sense that control was moving away from big agglomerations of power – whether governments or companies.
So, despite Cameron being in a largely self-dug hole, the EU should show some
flexibility
in its negotiations with Britain over questions that do not concern the Union’s basic principles.
Central banks need the
flexibility
to adapt policy to rapid structural change in the economy – and to clean up the mess that elections often leave behind.
They help workers and companies alike to tackle labor-market challenges, while meeting demand for
flexibility
(an important potential catalyst for both companies and workers) – that is, if certain structural and regulatory requirements are implemented.
Flexibility
and responsiveness will enable such firms to thrive.
Domestic financial reforms will focus on strengthening policy coordination and moving toward market-determined interest rates and exchange-rate
flexibility.
Several more narrowly economic issues – for example, defective growth patterns, underinvestment in tangible and intangible assets, and the absence of reforms designed to increase structural
flexibility
– remain a cause for concern, because they underpin subpar growth.
If we merely add new institutions to EU countries’ already Byzantine arrangements, we will fail to address the effectiveness, flexibility, and smoothness of information transfer through the EU-level supervisory system.
This allows for the
flexibility
needed to address structural challenges at the local level, thereby preventing them from blocking growth.
Fortunately, it seems to be choosing the path of
flexibility
and adjustment, as it pursues an ambitious reform plan that, it is hoped, will enable it to edge closer to – and eventually cross – the high-income threshold.
More
flexibility
would help attain more balanced and sustainable growth.
Perhaps the new data will cool the heated rhetoric about undervaluation and currency manipulation, and instead generate a substantive discussion about exchange-rate
flexibility
and its benefits for China and the world.
Moves toward increased exchange rate
flexibility
in China and other Asian countries, supported by financial sector reform, will have domestic and global benefits.
These parties’ extremist tendencies and narrow platforms are limiting governments’ policy
flexibility
by driving relatively moderate parties and politicians to adopt more radical positions.
To boost flexibility, social-security systems have to be largely disconnected from specific jobs, companies, and sectors, and rebuilt around individuals and families, income, and human capital.
But this should not go too far, for there are limits to what the state can do, and the strength of private initiative constitutes one key aspect of America, which became the world’s leading nation thanks to its dynamism, flexibility, and individual inventiveness.
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