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But spending
billions
instead of millions will not be enough to get the job done.
The economists’ essay then tells us that the supposed failure to make progress in reducing global poverty comes despite “hundreds of
billions
of dollars of aid.”
No time period is specified, but many readers will assume that the world gives “hundreds of
billions
of dollars” of aid each year.
As in the case of other aid programs, the equivalent of hundreds of
billions
of dollars has been transferred from richer economies to a much poorer one, with negative, if unintended, consequences.
In fact, a telltale sign of a bubble is that second-rate developers suddenly are able to earn
billions.
Every year, the West spends
billions
of dollars on defense relationships and on fighting terrorism.
The scale of the lending that is required will likely run into hundreds of
billions
of US dollars, and exceed anything that the IMF has done to date.
Any country required by its public-pension policy to transfer
billions
of dollars to citizens for decades-long retirement periods risks bankruptcy or, at best, stagnation.
It is a rule that applies to the medicines used by patients worldwide many
billions
of times a day.
And politicians would have an opportunity to control the number and distribution of emission permits and the flow of
billions
of dollars in subsidies and sweeteners.
Extra hundreds of
billions
of dollars have been injected into banks worldwide by this means.
Those investments will leverage
billions
in private-sector commitments, starting with more than $9 billion from a range of companies, including General Electric.
The federal government no longer has
billions
of dollars to dole out to foreign governments, while China is far more centralized and less beholden to its taxpayers.
In order to appeal to the leaders of East Asia’s fast-growing economies – which Putin has called the most important factor for Russia’s long-term success – the government spent
billions
of dollars this year to modernize the dilapidated port of Vladivostok.
After a breakdown in diplomatic approaches, the rich world is busy dropping bombs on Serbia, at a cost of
billions
of dollars per month, and will no doubt devote
billions
more to cleaning up and fixing the damage from the bombs once a diplomatic settlement is made finally.
Vaccines for all three of these dread diseases are within scientific reach, but will requires some
billions
of dollars to bring through the research and development stages to actual use.
The US subsidizes corn-based ethanol, and imposes tariffs on sugar-based ethanol; hidden in the tax code are
billions
of dollars of subsidies to the oil and gas industries.
Billions
of dollars of aid has been poured into developing countries, but it has not been enough, and the results have been disappointing.
As Iraq's new rulers debate what to do about the
billions
of dollars in foreign debts inherited from Saddam Hussein's regime, voices ranging from the charity Oxfam-International to US defence guru Richard Perle are calling for debt repudiation on the grounds that the debts Iraq now bears were contracted to sustain a corrupt, oppressive regime.
As this clean-up from the Great Recession continues, one thing is clear: the source of global demand in the future will be the
billions
of consumers in Africa, China, and India.
If we want to talk about
billions
of new consumers, rather than the tens of millions who have incomes similar to the middle classes in industrial countries, we must recognize that many emerging-market consumers have much lower incomes than industrial-country consumers, and live in vastly different conditions.
Niyazov destroyed the country’s health-care system and neglected its endemic poverty, while spending
billions
to turn its capital, Ashgabat, into a Las Vegas-style wonder of white marble and gold.
For example, despite losing faith in the International Monetary Fund after the region’s financial crisis in 1997, they agreed to contribute
billions
to the IMF after the recent global financial meltdown.
To have any chance of re-opening on Monday morning, a bankrupt bank’s
billions
of dollars in long-term debt would already have to be structured in such a way that a bankruptcy court could eliminate it over a weekend.
And it will be nearly impossible to convince European taxpayers and governments to provide further
billions
of euros without verifiable guarantees and the necessary reforms.
As the Cold War ended, who would have thought that the US would become entangled in Somalia, the Balkans, and Kuwait – or, when the new century began, that the US would spend hundreds of
billions
of dollars per year on wars in Southwest Asia.
It is time for US leaders to place the well-being of the high-tech wealth machine – which cost US taxpayers tens of
billions
of dollars to build – above the illusory notion that the only route to safety is unfettered access to the world’s digital traffic.
Corrupt rulers can use the
billions
they receive from oil and mining corporations for personal extravagance, or to buy arms for troops to crush democratic resistance movements.
Because every EU member state is obliged to contribute about 1% of its GNI to the Union’s budget, the UK’s data revision had to lead to a back payment of
billions
of euros.
Disillusion fully set in only one year after Medvedev’s election, when a new case against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev was brought, this time for embezzlement of
billions
and money laundering.
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