A more streamlined structure will also mean that the secretariat can be more flexible in responding to the evolving needs of the intergovernmental process.

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

With high and volatile oil prices, businesses will focus their investments less on boosting productivity and more on maintaining flexible energy usage.

Emerging Market Resilience

Europe s Foreign Policy Resilience

The False Panacea of Labor Market Flexibility

As we meet today, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction is being held in Kobe, Japan, with a view to launching a new framework for action to increase the world's resilience in the event of natural disasters.

Have We Become Too Flexible?

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

Second, Europe needs more flexible labor markets.

Increased synaptic plasticity the ability of synapses to adjust their strength, which is essential to healthy brain function could be the neurobiological reason for the apparent therapeutic effect in patients.

America is much more resilient than its critics believe.

Resource flexibility is lower than in the US.

As for the issue of delegation of authority to the country representatives, it has been pursued by all organizations present at the country level with a view to enhancing the flexibility of country programmes and the ability of the system to respond rapidly to emerging needs at the country level.

We must be faster and more flexible, efficient, transparent, and accountable.

In these cases, the system s resilience should be reduced.

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

Larger bureaucratic organizations can benefit from the flexibility of teams as well.

With more deposits at their disposure and a more flexible interest rate policy, banks would be able to price risks more easily and thus lend more to SMEs.

Our societies are more resilient, open, and diverse than ever.

This erodes the flexibility and ultimate effectiveness of fiscal responses.

In that regard, the flexibility and creativity demonstrated by delegations during the negotiations was noteworthy.

Continued progress in these areas will increase the region's resilience and growth potential.

But greater flexibility must be given to the Secretary General in managing staff and resources.

How fast this happens partly depends on the private sector s flexibility and dynamism.

Over time, they will be bypassed and replaced by more resilient alternatives.

Many commentators remarked on Americans resilience, and that of Bostonians in particular.

We must become faster, more flexible, and more effective more modern.

Given the importance of threshold effects, how can a system s resilience be maintained?

It hoped that Uganda's flexibility vis à vis the Ad Hoc Committee would be reciprocated.

The list would give priority to high level representatives, and should be regularly shared with the Committee so as to increase transparency.

But measures to make systems more resilient or robust would be incomplete.

In fact, Medvedev will be Russia s most malleable leader since Tsar Nicholas II.

In part, these unfortunate outcomes reflect the inflexibility of China s education system.

Observers point to the flexibility of the labour market as a basic strength for future economic advances.

In the 1960s, computers were added to give even more flexibility to the process.

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

Germany s soccer revolution was mirrored in the economy. Beginning in 2003, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a Social Democrat, launched a series of reforms aimed at increasing labor market flexibility and, more generally, laying the foundations for long term prosperity.

The emerging field of contemplative neuroscience has begun to produce evidence for plasticity of pro social preferences and motivation.

In 2000, this restriction was replaced by a more flexible Special Security Arrangement.

The progress that has been made testifies above all to the resilience and determination of the people and leadership of Timor Leste.

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.

Increasing labor market flexibility by reducing the costs of shedding workers will lead in the short run to more layoffs in the public and private sector, exacerbating the fall in incomes and demand.

Intelligence assets have been redirected. Borders have been made more secure and societies more resilient.

Migration, an option financed by remittances from relatives in the United States, was not made any more flexible, either.