However, it's brought me speaking opportunities that have much more return in terms of
absolute dollar figures than the book sales ever had.
It's
the absolute dollar figure that matters to the economy.
Not exact matches
With its 39 billion profit in US
dollars for clients Bridgewater has furthermore become the hedge fund with the second highest yield ever in
absolute figures.
The latest
figures from the UN show that three - quarters of the population are forced to survive in
absolute poverty on less than one
dollar a day; over 30 % of all children die before reaching the age of five and one child now dies of preventable diseases and malnutrition every three minutes (480 every day); overall life expectancy is a mere 45 years and almost a third of the country's population has been displaced by the conflict (some four million civilians).