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

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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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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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