In just three and a half decades, the industry became the main source of income.

Indeed, the unprecedented decline in GRA lending, the IMF s main source of income, forced the Fund to announce a 100 million cost cutting plan in April 2008. Similar financial pressures affected the World Bank, with its main source of income, IBRD lending, down 40 in 2007 from its late 1990 s levels.

In Cameroon, where cotton is the main source of income for nearly five million people, record crops were posted last year and the year before.

Table IS2.1 Summary by source of income

This year Madi may grow even less cotton, even though the crop is the main source of income for himself, his two wives and his five children.

Providing a direct source of income for conservation.

Microbes are the main source of antimicrobial drugs.

Agriculture remains the main source of income for more than 30 of China s labor force, compared to less than 2 in the United States or 6 in South Korea.

The main source of revenue is yearly membership fees.

For most citizens, wages are the only source of income.

Fish is also another source of income for the village.

Another source of income for al Ittihad is fund raising.

It is the main source of the city's drinking water.

The Human Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on source of income .

Many of them are exported legally, but then enter the illicit market, and today they are the main source of income for armed gangs and other criminals, including mercenaries and terrorist groups.

Microfinance institutions have become the main source of credit for women.

Fish is the main source of protein in the Islanders' diet.

The racial inequality that the government had mostly eradicated seems to be increasing again, especially since private sector tourism jobs, the main source of private income, seem to go disproportionately to white people.

Economy Most families depend on agriculture as their primary source of income.

They should not become the main source of funding for gender mainstreaming.

Eradication will never be successful in Afghanistan, because it destroys the single crop that will grow in the south s harsh climate and thus serves as the main source of income to millions of people.

For developing countries, official development assistance (ODA) remains an important source of income.

External financing is the main source of capital spending in the health sector.

It often serves as the main source of financing for many terrorist groups.

In my country, drug trafficking is the main source of the financing of violence.

The private sector is becoming the main source of FDI flows to developing countries.

So bread has become from a main staple, a source of calories associated with obesity and also a source of modernity, of modern life.

In 1978, Proposition 13 capped California property taxes the main source of public school funding.

Narcotics and terrorism are interrelated, because narcotics are the main source of financing for terrorism.

We consider these campaigns a main source of hatred and discrimination among peoples and civilizations.

Official development assistance (ODA) remains the main source of external finance for landlocked developing countries.

Nunavummiut cannot, under the Act, be discriminated against on the basis of lawful source of income.

Of course, these contradictions are real, but our main source of strength cannot be their weakness.

His family survived but will need to learn to live without their main source of support.

This year Madi may grow even less cotton, even though the crop is the main source of income for himself, his two wives and his five children. On some of his land, he now grows corn and peanuts instead of cotton.

A government cannot liquidate its deficit if the source of its revenues, the national income, is diminishing.

Agriculture was the primary source of income, with 75 of the population making their living from farming.

Micro trafficking in drugs also constitutes a major source of income for poor people in urban areas.

As a result, legality has emerged as the main source of political legitimacy in the modern world.

Narrowing the gap with industrialized high income countries continues to be the world s main development challenge.

In Australia's tax system, personal and company income tax are the main sources of government revenue.

Moreover, although the most reliable source for calculating literacy rates are population censuses, the main limitation of this source is that census years are almost 10 years apart.

The scientific principles of early childhood development do not vary by family income, program type, or funding source.

It is said that the members of the Hiawatha First Nation (of whom 184 members live on the reserve and 232 outside) have tourism as their main source of income and that recreational fishing is a significant attraction for tourists to the area.

Meanwhile a slump in the real estate market deprived local governments of their main revenue source land sales.