China, the U.S., and Sustainability: Perspectives Based on Comprehensive Wealth
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We are very grateful to Kirk Hamilton and Giovanni Ruta of the World Bank and Peter Klenow of Stanford for very helpful advice and for generously supplying important data for this project. We also thank Kenneth Chay, and T. N. Srinivasan for very helpful comments.
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