Money not spent on tobacco would be spent on other goods and services.

Mexico is spending a lot of money on surveillance tools

Keep a record of how much you spend.

The government spends around 320 million annually on their military.

Moreover, Italy spends around 4.5 of GDP on education, while the Scandinavian countries spend more than 6 of GDP.

An economist would probably argue that money spent on education, housing, and health care brings more welfare than money spent in the quest for medals.

Other counties spent even more.

Peacebuilding has a high cost, which is generally spread out over several years.

But the same is true of money spent on, say, national defense.

In addition, some of the billions spent to subsidize Western farmers should now be spent to help poorer developing countries meet their basic food and energy needs.

Brazil s government spends 4.7 of GDP on health care alone.

In recent years, the company has spent vigorously on everything but developing its reserves.

Companies spend a lot of time watching customers, trying to figure them out, but so little time listening to them.

Today, Africa spends four times as much on debt servicing as it does on education and health care combined.

America vastly overspends on the military compared with other areas of government.

After all, the US spends almost as much on its armed forced as the rest of the world combined.

This is understandable private investment firms spend an enormous amount on marketing and salaries.

The United States currently spends 147 billion on obesity related health care annually.

As a result, the wealthy use health services four times more often than the poor 40.9 percent of total expenses in this sector were attributed to the wealthiest fifth, whereas 10.1 percent were paid by the poorest fifth, according to the World Bank.

Moreover, money spent on the Iraq war does not stimulate the economy today as much as money spent at home on roads, hospitals, or schools, and it doesn t contribute as much to long term growth.

At the same time, money spent on the war could have been spent elsewhere.

Layla started spending her insurance money.

They spend about 20 of their nightly activities feeding.

The US government spends 450 times more on hard military power than on soft power.

To put that into context, The U.K. government spends about 12 billion pounds a year on foreign aid.

In a democracy, leaders must be able to justify that their people's money is indeed being well spent.

The US claims that it helps the world fight poverty, but instead spends its money on weapons.

China s government expenditure on education is approximately 3 of GDP, compared to 5.4 in Brazil.

Lagging states spend considerably less than leading states on social services, including education and health care.

It will be a tragedy for Russia if it spends the next 20 years believing it to be the case.

The US now spends that amount in Iraq every three months.

But there is a larger point here billions of dollars are given and spent on aid and development by individuals and companies each year.

If experts cannot agree that there is a climate crisis, why should governments spend billions of dollars to address it?

Businesses generally have to expend capital before they are able to generate and collect revenues.

By contrast, the US spends just 18 billion, roughly 0.16 of GNP, on development aid. In Europe, by contrast, military spending is roughly 2 of GNP, while development aid is around 0.4 of GNP and on a rising path to reach 0.7 of GNP by 2015.

Yet right now NASA is spending 475 million on a program that has already been canceled instead of on the space center.

HICCup will spend a lot of time with lawyers and actuaries!

Japan now spends more than 40 billion a year on defense and maintains one of the world s most diverse and modern militaries.

Even in good times, governments have for too long been spending more than they received.

In other words, the US spends as much on arms as the rest of the world combined.

It is for the Member States to ensure that we are not imposing too many tasks on the Secretariat and spreading resources too thinly.

To combat the impact of such dependence, they spend oil revenues on other sectors, leaving the oil sector with little investment.

According to the Follow Up Committee for Arab Education, the Israeli government spends an average of 192 per year on each Arab student and 1,100 per Jewish student.

Beyond this ceiling, the government can spend only from current revenues.

This year, the Russian military will spend over 40 billion.