The policy was fantastically successful, with GDP per capita in real terms increasing from 130 USD (1990) to 1911 USD in 2013 (2).
Arguably, he was successful as average annual GDP growth was 5.3% during his presidency, far higher than the 1.6% average growth under his predecessor Ali Khamenei (1981-1989).
A successful iPhone 5 could boost GDP in the US, with ripples around the world for the more than 150 companies in Apple's supply chain, and the mobile networks hoping to fatten their revenues from an increasingly smartphone dependent subscriber base.
He's used the latest OECD statistics on the performance of successful European nations, using indices of GDP, employment, education and health.
Fred Hu, an economist with the Hong Kong office of Goldman Sachs, an investment bank, estimates that China's successful bid will boost the country's GDP growth by 0.3% per year to 2008.
Economists have estimated that if Trump were successful in removing all undocumented workers, our GDP would fall by 5.7percentt.
In Figure 8, for instance, we show the percentage of randomly selected GDP parameter sets that result in successful immune system activation as a function of pathogen growth rate.
Higher education is a hugely successful sector, contributing about £40bn to the UK's GDP annually.
As physicist Arianna Montorsi of the Polytechnic University of Turin in Italy pointed out during the meeting, Italy has relatively few researchers compared to its GDP, which means it's also less successful in obtaining European research grants.
Ireland was conspicuously successful: in 1987 its gross debt was 109% of GDP; by 2007 it was down to 25%.
