For example, expanded credits for forestry-based offsets, including reforestation, afforestation and avoided deforestation, would give the rural poor a critical source of income to manage and sustain their landscapes.

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"Although migrant workers are to a large extent adversely affected by the slow growth in the global economy, remittance volumes have remained remarkably resilient, providing a vital lifeline to not only poor families but a steady and reliable source of foreign currency in many poor remittances recipient countries, " agrees Hans Timmer, director of the bank's Development Prospects Group.

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Lending pigs to poor farmers as a sustainable source of income.

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But others, including two of the most important, Maharashtra (home to Mumbai) and Delhi, are reluctant to follow for big airports: the tax is a valuable source of revenue out of which fuels used by the poor, such as kerosene and diesel, are subsidised.

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And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice -- not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes: tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

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Thinking it might be the (poor) quality of the data, we obtained a large sample of similar data from a different source: supplier contracts.

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The squeeze on mortgages has led to the entry of "credit crunch", along with the US source of the crisis - the "sub-prime" home loan to those with a poor credit history.

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