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How they are prioritized will be profoundly important to the lives of
billions
of people.
But what if, instead of trying to predict the future, we look at realities that exist today for
billions
of people?
But when
billions
of people take antibiotics, and livestock producers use them to boost efficiency, they often become ineffective.
The UN spends
billions
of dollars promoting human rights, protecting the environment, fighting disease and reducing poverty.
Doing nothing means allowing US investment funds to pursue enormous compensation cases – likely in the
billions
of dollars – against a future Ukrainian administration, which, even in the best-case scenario, will be on weak domestic political footing and already saddled with an unpopular austerity program and loan-repayment schedule.
We estimate that literally
billions
of dollars every year are devoted to promoting this view of religion.
Intelligence contracting is an industry worth tens of
billions
of dollars, and companies like Booz Allen have made it central to their business models, staffing their executive suites with former senior intelligence officials.
As China enrolls countries as members of its Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and doles out
billions
of dollars of aid during state visits abroad, some observers worry that, when it comes to soft power, China could actually be taking the lead over countries like the United States.
Yet the
billions
of dollars China is spending on its charm offensive have had only a limited return.
A report by the International Commission on Financing Education Opportunity, led by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, similarly put developing countries’ external financing needs at tens of
billions
of dollars per year.
Asia's central banks have bought hundreds of
billions
of dollars of US securities.
But if he pursues his protectionist promise to put “America first,” which smacks of xenophobic nationalism, investors and central banks could gradually be impelled to find alternative reserves for their spare
billions.
Yet enough nuclear material to fill a small bag of sugar is all it takes to construct a device with the potential to kill hundreds of thousands of people and inflict
billions
of dollars in damage.
Then, of course, there is the biggest market of all: the US, where it is estimated that annual revenue for pornography in 2004 exceeded the combined revenue of the ABC, CBS, and NBC television networks by many
billions
of dollars.
For example, the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers pulled back the curtain on the murky system of tax havens and shell companies that shelter
billions
of dollars from some of the world’s poorest countries, including many in Africa.
The West also armed the entire region through hundreds of
billions
of dollars in weapons sales.
Though the deal does slow Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, it does not restrain – or even address – the regime’s hegemonic ambitions in the region, for which it has already spent
billions
of dollars and suffered crippling sanctions.
American defense contractors are dependent on the
billions
the Kingdom spends on military hardware.
Just tens of dollars per person per year would generate tens of
billions
of dollars of increased foreign assistance and make a profound difference in the quality of life, and in the benefits of globalization, for the world’s poorest people.
Trump’s Climate ScapegoatNEW DELHI – By accusing India of demanding “billions and
billions
and
billions
of dollars” as a condition for its participation in the Paris climate agreement, US President Donald Trump has ruffled what promised to be a close relationship between the world’s two largest democracies.
As a result, bottled water is now the single biggest source of plastic waste, with tens of
billions
of bottles ending up as garbage every year.
But what if Spain - and Europe as a whole - had reacted in the opposite way to the Madrid train bombing of April, saying: "We promise that because of that slaughter we will double our support for stabilization in Iraq by sending twice as many troops, experts, engineers, teachers, policemen, doctors, and
billions
of euros in support of allied forces and their Iraqi co-workers."
Those behind the problem – the world’s biggest polluters – continue to reap
billions
in profits, while receiving huge energy subsidies from governments (projected to reach $5.3 trillion in 2015, or about $10 million per minute).
Such a tax is consistent with international law, including the “polluter pays” principle, and would provide a new and predictable source of finance – amounting to
billions
of dollars – for the communities that need it most, without letting governments off the hook for providing public sources of finance.
There might be some money in repackaging, but not the
billions
that banks made by slicing and dicing sub-prime mortgages into packages whose value was much greater than their contents.
North Korea eventually regained its money, but this so-called “sanctions relief” was in no way equivalent to the
billions
in question in Geneva.
The numbers are truly alarming: subsidies in advanced countries exceed the total income of sub-Saharan Africa; the average European subsidy per cow matches the $2 per day poverty level on which
billions
of people barely subsist;America's $4 billion cotton subsidies to 25,000 well-off farmers bring misery to 10 million African farmers and more than offset America's miserly foreign aid to some of the affected countries.
Projects like these are being replicated across the continent, generating
billions
of dollars in value in terms of reduced costs, productivity gains, and increased revenues.
New ESG reporting frameworks can help to attract
billions
of dollars from institutional investors to support the effort to achieve the SDGs.
And, over the last decade, US defense exports to India have skyrocketed from just $100 million to
billions
of dollars annually.
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