The US, the IMF, and others had encouraged Asian countries to increase exchange rate flexibility.

This increase in organizational flexibility helped ensure the long term success of Roman military forces.

Countries degree of labor market flexibility varies considerably, and the reforms that increase it are critically important.

As a major donor, my Government is currently working on means to increase the flexibility of our funding response mechanism.

And, to address volatile capital flows, countries should increase exchange rate flexibility, maintain adequate international reserves, and implement carefully designed capital controls.

The impact of an increase in the retirement age on unemployment could be offset to some extent by implementing pension reforms along with labour market reforms to increase the flexibility of the labour market.

(c) Increase flexibility by using contractual forms that allow UNOPS to manage peaks of activity without increasing fixed cost capacity, and by hiring versatile, mobile resources.

The US, the IMF, and others had encouraged Asian countries to increase exchange rate flexibility. The depreciation that followed the crisis helped accelerate recovery by boosting exports.

The report shows that in their desire to remain or become more competitive, governments and employers around the world have taken many steps to increase labor market flexibility.

Flexibility to make changes.

Secondly, peacebuilding requires flexibility.

The authors described a new approach to commercial product development that would increase speed and flexibility, based on case studies from manufacturing firms in the automotive, photocopier and printer industries.

(b) Within market tolerance, increase managerial flexibility and alignment of structure with demand by converting fixed costs into project based variable costs where feasible, while containing the overall cost structure.

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.

Last but not least, there are longer term structural reforms, such as labor market reforms that increase flexibility without leading to large scale lay offs (a model rather successfully implemented by Germany).

Cutting out a level of command, omitting two out of three higher echelons between the theatre headquarters and the fighting battalions, would produce economies, increase flexibility, and simplify command and control arrangements.

Evidence exists that stability of employment (tenure) is positively related to productivity gains it can increase the gains of learning by doing, as well as increase the incentives for firms to invest in training.8 Thus, a balance needs to be struck between flexibility and stability.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

The False Panacea of Labor Market Flexibility

Its flexibility had not, however, been reciprocated.

A second lesson is the importance of flexibility.

Resource flexibility is lower than in the US.

We appreciate the flexibility shown by all parties.

Under current conditions of limited fiscal flexibility, the FTC's ability to demonstrate that competition enforcement resulted in tangible benefits for the economy would be a key element in convincing the Government to increase its resource allocation.

Another major problem is the MFF s lack of flexibility.

But flexibility is not a synonym for pure floating.

Unfortunately, Japan s public officials appear incapable of similar flexibility.

The international financial institutions should show some operational flexibility.

Flexibility will be essential, within the defined budgetary parameters.

There was also a need for flexibility in implementation.

In a few weeks, this flexibility will be used up.

More flexibility would help attain more balanced and sustainable growth.

This erodes the flexibility and ultimate effectiveness of fiscal responses.

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.

While the effects of the Act cannot be isolated, an analysis of women's participation in the labour force since 1996 indicates that there has been an increase in labour force participation and an improvement in workplace flexibility for women.

Such flexibility was not easy to offer when domestic legislation was already in force, and for that reason, the flexibility and the concessions had to be mentioned particularly.

That was why monetary policy could be managed with greater flexibility.

The US economy, meanwhile, retains many elements of dynamism and flexibility.

The surface ships are mostly small, relying on agility and flexibility.

Her delegation appreciated the flexibility shown by the delegation of Japan.

Systems and procedures are designed for flexibility, rapid response and functionality.

He also hinted at more flexibility in negotiations with the United States.

New central and eastern European members are bringing enormous dynamism and flexibility.

Yet, in the end, credibility collapsed because of the lack of flexibility.

The main difference between each type is the flexibility of the material.