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Saudi Arabia, long one of the Arab world’s most rigid societies, now finds itself in a state of flux.
In Europe, meanwhile, the consensus was embodied in the European Union's Growth and Stability Pact and made operational in the rigid Maastricht criteria that capped government budget deficits at 3% of GDP.
But the European Commission’s rigid bureaucratic diktats have taken some regulation too far, and efforts to force lower-tax countries to “harmonize” their rates would be devastating to their citizens and firms.
Developments in Morocco, Bahrain, and Jordan certainly seem to suggest that this changing of the guard can help soften rigid political structures and allow for broader participation.
It would ensure that labor markets’ actual needs, not rigid government policies, determined migration patterns, by enabling employers to choose who migrates.
Without impersonal, general norms and their enforcement by independent judicial authorities, according to this view, little development, if any, is possible, because the risks facing both labor and capital – including corruption, arbitrariness, and rigid traditions – will be too high.
But demilitarization, the deployment of international forces, and rigid security arrangements could offer an answer.
Crowds are the opposite of organizations; rather than being dominated by rigid hierarchies, they are often led by individuals with no formal rank.
True, the US has been home to a rigid, albeit comparably fluid, class structure ever since its founding.
But in practice, immigration is often not as beneficial as it could be, because the target country has a rigid wage structure that prevents the additional jobs needed to employ the immigrants from being created.
As in so many other respects, universities not only in Europe, but also in Japan, South Korea, and developing parts of the world, including China and India, need to loosen rigid structures and habits to avoid decay and nurture a renaissance.
But it can also enable action, because the parties are not constrained by rigid requirements.
To be sure, a German-style grand coalition would not be in line with how politics is usually practiced in France, which is accustomed to a rigid left-right divide.
By contrast, countries with rigid exchange-rate regimes are being tested more severely.
Indeed, European firms, probably in a response to rigid labor markets, have for at least twenty years been using technologies that are much more capital-intensive than that of US firms.
Rigid labor markets and a corporate governance culture that protects incumbent managers, make it hard to reap the benefits of new technologies.
Austerity was bound to hurt Greece’s rigid economy – one of the least flexible in Europe – much more than Ireland’s, where flexible labor and product markets allowed massive job losses in the housing, construction, and banking sectors to be offset gradually by job gains in other sectors.
In a world where capital flows across borders instantly, rigid notions of sovereignty are not only inappropriate, but also dangerous, not least because they stoke fears among international investors.
By relying on benefit-risk analysis, rather than on a more rigid, phased approval process, potentially life-saving medications can better reach the patients who need them.
Compared to Chirac’s rigid refusal to consider any kind of rapprochement with the Front, Sarkozy’s policy is thus a small step towards recognition of the Front’s legitimacy.
Unfortunately, the US and most other industrialized countries, with their stultifying and rigid education systems, have failed to prepare people for this reality.
He pointed out that, while rigid systems may seem more stable, they are not equipped to cope with unexpected shocks, making them fragile in the long run.
Similarly, resolving the crises that will inevitably emerge from the current rigid exchange-rate system will ultimately require Germany to agree either to debt write-offs or to large-scale government-bond purchases by the European Central Bank, which would flood the eurozone with liquidity.
Although he does want to make the French labor market less rigid, he would block foreign takeover bids of French companies and protect Airbus workers from possible job losses.
Flexible fiscal rules and rigid monetary policies have given way to the opposite.
In the American-Iranian equation it was the US, not Iran, that conducted rigid ideological diplomacy.
If demand is too weak, it can lead to a sharp drop in employment (because wages and prices are rigid in the short term).
The other school, by contrast, worried that the existing monetary system was rigid, brittle, and prone to crisis.
The UN’s manifold agendas – peace and security, sustainable development, human rights, and humanitarianism – must be structurally integrated into one strategic continuum, rather than remaining rigid, self-contained institutional silos.
If there is one clear lesson from history, it is that the combination of open financial markets and a rigid exchange rate is a disaster waiting to happen.
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