Without a fixed income, and a greater dependency on farming, the poor often require greater flexibility in their payment patterns.

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But, just as revolutionaries often make poor administrators, Mr Cameron's flexibility may prove helpful to him in government.

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The country's rugged terrain and poor road network also slows down overland journeys, whereas a helicopter can fly anywhere, at speed, with flexibility.

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