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

A healthy older person may well appreciate part time work if it comes with flexibility.

I should like to call upon all member countries to exercise the utmost flexibility in creating consensus on the programme of work.

Underinvesting in Resilience

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

Operational flexibility is needed to monitor developments on the ground and make well informed decisions as regards the appropriateness of either introducing or discontinuing this scheme at a given duty station.

Flexibility allows NGOs to be innovative in ways that organizations like the UN often cannot.

Southern Resilience

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What Is Resilience?

Flexibility to make changes.

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.

The Netherlands will continue to apply maximum flexibility in the discussions on a work programme of the Conference, which should finally allow these negotiations to really start.

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

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.

UNFPA notes that it is the responsibility of all supervisors and managers to ensure proper work planning and exercise flexibility so that staff do not lose their leave entitlements.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

Advocates of greater labor market flexibility insist that paying employers to hire young people is the wrong approach.

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 resilience itself is neither good nor bad.

Canada has shown this in its approaches.

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

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

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.

I should like to conclude my remarks on the proposed programme of work and timetable by reminding delegations of the need to maintain the requisite degree of flexibility in the process of implementing the programme and timetable.

We need to look carefully at our zero tolerance policies.

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

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

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

This is not something that it possesses in abundance.

Field level fund raising and resource allocation rigidity

Flexibility will be essential, within the defined budgetary parameters.

By the time a revised task force added dislike of public speaking in 1987, the disorder seemed sufficiently elastic to include virtually everyone on the planet.

In order to correct the existing situation, future activities are necessary to establish appropriate bodies at all levels for the inclusion of employers in a tripartite dialogue and the introduction of increased flexibility in the compensation system.

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.

The resilience and adaptability that they provide are crucial to supporting long term economic growth and job creation no matter what the future brings.

But some countries show strong resilience in the face of pervasive violence and volatility.

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

There is thus a surprising resilience in the European project.

CANBERRA Resilience, like love, is difficult to define.