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The financial-services industry contributes a third of Luxembourg's output and, including its indirect contribution (accountants, lawyers and the like), supplies around 40% of Luxembourg's tax take.Luxembourg is sometimes lumped with tax havens because of various scandals involving companies based there, including the notorious BCCI and, more recently, Clearstream.

It has grown fast and contributes a third of the group's pre-tax profits.

Bancomer, the Mexican arm of Spain's BBVA, contributes a third of BBVA's worldwide profits.

Around three-quarters of Nepal's population relies on agriculture for income, and it contributes a third of the country's GDP.

Pemex, the state oil firm, is a cash cow for the government it contributes a third of revenues but it is poorly managed and its production levels have been steadily declining.

For some luxury and consumer goods companies, the Asian market now contributes a third or even half of global sales and earnings, a sharp increase from a decade or two ago.

Brazil, which contributes a fifth of the bank's profits, has fallen back into recession.

Lioba Braun contributes a first-rate Isolde, full-bodied and darkly hued in the tradition of mezzo-soprano exponents of the role like Waltraud Meier.

The $85 million transaction gives Yukos 54 per cent of the refinery's shares and control of a business that not only dominates Lithuania's gasoline supply, but also contributes a tenth of its gross domestic product.

Preacher writer Garth Ennis contributes a first world war piece Red Horse with art by Peter Snejbjerg, while the editor teams up again with Reppion for time-travel science fiction piece Sway, drawn by Nicola Scott.

The company contributes a fifth of the $25 million annual budget at the gene therapy institute, and in return has exclusive rights to develop Dr. Wilson's discoveries into commercial products.