This is larger than, for example, California's entire spending on prisons and higher education combined.
Reaching adolescents with comprehensive sexuality education, combined with health information and services, is essential.
So the state is currently spending more on subsidising the rich's fuel than it does on health and education combined.
The average U.S. household spends almost twice as much on transportation as health care and education combined.
This is equivalent to 2% of El Salvador's GDP and is about the size of the 2010 budgets for the ministries of health and education combined.
According to Mateo, decades of underinvestment in education combined with a fast-growing population has left the country in need of almost 67,000 classrooms.
"Before the HIPC Initiative, eligible countries were, on average, spending slightly more on debt service than on health and education combined", the IMF said.
Patience and education, combined with organisation and cunning, are the key to this process, one in which we can all learn.
Indeed, this measure of "cultural background" explains as much as income levels, and three-fifths as much as income and education combined.
Yemen's government, for instance, spends the equivalent of 6% of its GDP on keeping fuel prices low, more than on health and education combined.
The governments of Yemen and Indonesia, for example, spent more holding down the price of fuel than they spent on health and education combined.
