Let them eat guns?The recently released 2005 yearbook from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an organization that conducts scientific research into questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, in order to contribute to an understanding of the conditions for reviews armament, disarmament, and international security. At its release a spokesperson for the institute said, "Today's world cannot be secure without security for all, yet the events of the past few years have done little to bring global solutions closer." * World military expenditure exceeded $1 trillion in 2004. The United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. accounted for 47 percent of this spending. * $238 billion. Appropriations for the "war on terror This article is about U.S. actions, and those of other states, after September 11, 2001. For other conflicts, see Terrorism. The War on Terror (also known as the War on Terrorism " for 2003-05, which exceeded the combined military spending of the entire developing world in 2004 ($214 billion). * $236 billion. The combined arms sales of the top 100 companies in 2003. The top five companies accounted for 44 percent of this total. * $2.5 billion per year: The external funding required by 47 countries with the lowest primary school completion rates in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education. * $2.4 billion per year: The cost to halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. . Source: "SIPRI SIPRI Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pocket Yearbook 2005" (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2005); "Achieving Education for All by 2015" (World Bank, 2002); "The Unbreakable Link" (Jubilee Research at the New Economics Foundation, 2002). |
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