1 Worldwatch calculation based on data in International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Economic Outlook Database, April 2010.
2 Ibid.
3 IMF, World Economic Outlook (Washington, DC: April 2010), p. 2.
4 Tim Callen, “PPP vs. the Market: Which Weight Matters,” Finance and Development, March 2007.
5 Worldwatch calculation, op. cit. note 1.
6 Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook (Washington, DC: 2009).
7 IMF, op. cit. note 3.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid., p. 47.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid., pp. 6–7.
14 Environmental Protection Agency, Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Recycling, and Disposal in the United States: Facts and Figures for 2008 (Washington, DC: 2009).
15 Sarah O. Ladislaw and Nitzan Goldberger, Assessing the Global Green Stimulus, briefing paper (Washington, DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, February 2010).
16 World Bank, World Development Report 2010 (Washington, DC: 2010), p. 59.
17 Ladislaw and Goldberger, op. cit. note 15.
18 Ibid.
19 Tsuyoshi Kawakami, Cooperation with Asia and Pacific Islands: Toward A Sound Material Cycle Society
(Tokyo: Office of Sound Material-Cycle Society Waste Management and Recycling Department, Ministry of the Environment, July 2008).
20 Ibid.
21 "Japan: Assessment and Recommendations," OECD Environmental Performance Reviews, May 2010.
22 World Bank, "Developing a Circular Economy in China: Highlights and Recommendations," policy note prepared by prepared by the Rural Development, Natural Resources and Environment Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region (Washington, DC: 2009).
23 Ibid.
24 Philipp Schepelmann, Yanne Goossens, and Arttu Makipaa, eds., Toward Sustainable Development: Alternatives to GDP for Measuring Progress (Wuppertal, Germany: Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, 2010), pp. 52–56.
25 Austrian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management in cooperation with Sustainable Europe Research Institute, What Kind of Growth is Sustainable? (Vienna: 2009); United Kingdom from Sustainable Development Commission, Redefining Prosperity (London: 2009); France from Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, undated, at www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/documents/rapport_anglais.pdf, 2009; European Union from GDP and Beyond: Measuring Progress in a Changing World (Brussels: 20 August 2009); Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Measuring the Progress of Societies,” at www.oecd.org/pages/0,3417,en_40033426_40033828_1_1_1_1_1,00.html.
26 Zhou Xin and Simon Rabinovitch, "Tired of Choking on Growth, China Launches Green GDP," Reuters, 4 November 2010.
27 Allegra Stratton, "Happiness Index to Gauge Britain's National Mood," (London) Guardian, 14 November 2010.