But the decreased flexibility in response to economic shocks will certainly test it.

We now know that labor market deregulation does not ensure economic resilience and rapid job creation.

Developing the service sector could also diversify the production base, thereby enhancing economic resilience and boosting growth momentum.

Southern Resilience

Such structural flexibility is better adapted to enabling the broad changes that rapidly evolving technological and global economic forces require.

What Is Resilience?

Flexibility to make changes.

Underinvesting in Resilience

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Such flexibility not only reduced chances of enforceability but also created legal uncertainty, which would in turn give rise to additional costs and also raise questions of economic relevance.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

To the extent that this approach reflects the view that policymaking is an art, not a science, that is a good thing the world needs more flexibility in economic policymaking.

A second lesson is the importance of flexibility.

But flexibility is not a synonym for pure floating.

We appreciate the flexibility shown by all parties.

Secondly, peacebuilding requires flexibility.

Participants generally took the view that small island developing States will not be able to build economic resilience and competitive economies without the support of their development partners.

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

For starters, making a system very resilient in one way can cause it to lose resilience in other ways.

Building and maintaining resilience requires probing its boundaries.

Its flexibility had not, however, been reciprocated.

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

There are enormous differences among EU members in terms of the size of their public sectors, the flexibility of their labor markets, and almost any socio economic indicator that one can think of.

Adaptive governance (flexible, distributive, and learning based).

But resilience itself is neither good nor bad.

Resilience should not be confused with resistance to change.

Canada has shown this in its approaches.

We believe that that proposal shows a much more flexible approach.

The international financial institutions should show some operational flexibility.

In Italy, greater employment flexibility was introduced by the Prodi government in 1997, and further strengthened under the so called Biagi Law of 2003.

We need to look carefully at our zero tolerance policies.

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

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

The difference between the two valuations is the value of flexibility inherent in the project.

I fail to see how discussions on improving security in space, or discussions on dealing with the subject of nuclear disarmament, could threaten anyone's security interests.

A grand coalition could show greater flexibility in addressing the euro crisis, but less on questions of foreign and security policy.

None of this detracts from the resilience factor.

This is not something that it possesses in abundance.

But it also includes physical resilience and the ability to withstand shocks.

Three things explain this remarkable resilience ideas, politics, and institutions.

So, is resilience a useful concept or just a fleeting buzzword?

To that end, her delegation would continue to exercise flexibility on the outstanding issues.

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.

Field level fund raising and resource allocation rigidity

Flexibility will be essential, within the defined budgetary parameters.