As recently at 2010, it outranked 12 EU members in gross domestic product per capita.

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After the fall of communism, most of the countries in Eastern Europe started from low economic bases, low gross domestic product per capita and low wage scales.

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Such a move would lift its per capita gross domestic product by four percentage points, the IMF says.

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This is far less than the 3% yearly growth of the U.S. economy or even the 1.6% growth in per capita gross domestic product, a good measure of productivity.

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The truth is that today, even after all of these years of "miraculous" growth, the per capita gross domestic product of the People's Republic of China ranks it below such emblems of Third World poverty as Lesotho, the Congo, Senegal, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Honduras.

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Unless new boosters come along, Arnott and Bernstein say, investors today should not count on more than the paltry earnings and dividend growth discovered in the study: a little less than per capita gross domestic product, which they say is unlikely to rise above 2% anytime soon.

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Although China and other emerging markets are expected to keep having faster gross domestic product growth than the U.S., our advantage in wealth, in real GDP per capita, is expected to persist, dwarfing China and other emerging markets.

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