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For some countries, notably in South Asia, where such funds account for a large part of national incomes (16% of GDP in Nepal in 2007, 9% in Bangladesh), the fall will be painful indeed when combined with higher fuel and food prices.
ECONOMIST: Migration
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Strong tech sales may account, in part, for a big jump in e-shopping this year.
CNN: Apple, Amazon lead big tech Black Friday
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TextAmerica has pay-for options if you really get in to it, but for the most part a free account seems to suit most folks well, even with a tiny ad here or there.
ENGADGET: pt's How-to Fridays: Turn your PC in to an automatic "moblog" picture posting machine!
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In the Netherlands, part-timers now account for two-fifths of the total workforce.
ECONOMIST: Western Europe��s job-seekers limber up
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Differences in health status between the groups account for part of this disparity, but consumer decision-making is, we've found, also a major factor.
WSJ: Mitch Daniels: Hoosiers and Health Savings Accounts
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These trial reforms, while still relatively modest, are significant in large part because they show a way forward for capital-account liberalization.
WSJ: Business Asia: The Quietly International Yuan
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None of us seem to play any real part in "university life" and all have jobs that account for at least two days per week.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Students 'stay home to cut costs'
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Retired people account for a much smaller part of the population growth in Arizona than in other retirement havens, such as Florida.
ECONOMIST: Urban sprawl
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It said that Asia and the Middle East would soon account for about one quarter of that market, thanks in large part to growing demand for the products in India and China.
BBC: High-def CCTV cameras risk backlash, warns UK watchdog
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Due, in part, to the coalition's determination to protect them, pensioner benefits will account for well over half of that total.
BBC: Fiscal choices from IFS
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Or is the freedom of the press so valuable that politicians should resist at all costs setting rules for those whose job is, in part, to hold the powerful to account?
BBC: How free should our free press be?
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Fishing and farming account for a very small part of Japan's total exports, even if a disproportionate share in Japan's stricken north-east.
ECONOMIST: A spreading cloud of economic and human costs