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Bill Gates tells his foundation to spend it all by 2045


The Gates Foundation is expected to spend $200 billion over the next 20 years to support causes related to health and human development.

Microsoft co-founder turned billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said today that his foundation will have just 20 years to exhaust its coffers and wind down operations. The 25-year-old Gates Foundation has already spent more than $100 billion on a range of causes centered mostly around health, education, global development, and gender equality. Many of the Gates Foundation’s beneficiaries have been people in low-income countries with endemic and frequently deadly diseases like malaria.

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