(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.

Mr. Repasch (United States of America) said that the Secretariat had repeatedly stressed the need for greater flexibility in human resources management.

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Flexibility to make changes.

A Doha agreement would also bring down tariffs, although with certain flexibilities, thereby increasing consumers access to food.

It is easy to imagine situations in which flexibility can be increased by curtailing individual rights and abandoning pre established decision making rules.

Unearmarked funds must also be increased so that UNHCR would have more room to manoeuvre in taking the measures that it deemed necessary based on the assessment of the situation.

Regarding WTO rules, it was necessary to avoid the introduction of more complex disciplines while increasing flexibility for developing countries.

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For example, in respect of hiring public employees, increased flexibility and discretion may improve the ability to hire quickly and to target the right person more effectively. However, use of the new flexibility may allow a manager to hire a friend, a relative or a political ally.

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However, increased flexibility in other respects is essential in order to maximize the availability of resources to urgently address critical national capacity development needs.

I call it sort of shotgun flexibility.

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.

In other words, drugs like ketamine that quickly increase neuroplasticity might be particularly clinically efficient in combination with psychotherapeutic interventions.

While these resources are available for country level development interventions under the goals and service lines of the MYFF, increased resource flexibility is required, especially in support of capacity development.

With respect to reorganizing the Secretariat, we are in favour of increasing the flexibility, and strengthening the authority of, the Secretary General in his managerial functions as the head of the Organization, in order to enable him to keep abreast of the current needs of the United Nations.

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.

For example, the German reforms of 2003 2006 increased flexibility significantly (though in a more benign global and eurozone setting).

Third, domestic macroprudential and microprudential policies increase resilience. These policies should aim at reducing or eliminating the wedge between activities that are good for individuals, banks, and firms, and those that benefit society as a whole.

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.

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.

Also, a proposal had been submitted that the base year emission level should be increased in order to establish a realistic basis for fulfilling commitments under the Convention and a draft decision had been adopted in May 2005 stipulating that Croatia would be allowed a certain degree of flexibility.

(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.

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.

Moreover, even if prices on average exhibit some downward flexibility, deflation necessarily increases the real rate of interest, given that nominal interest rates cannot fall below zero.

It is therefore proposed that that the regional limitation remain in principle, but with a flexibility of a plus or minus 10 per cent to facilitate some movement of TRAC 1.1.2 resources between regions.