Plank, Barbara; Schaffartzik, Anke; Wiedenhofer, Dominik - 2022
MF of China, the European Union (EU-27), and the United States of America (USA), between 1997 and 2017. We distinguish … USA occurred due to imported inefficiencies of international supply chains. Reduced material intensity leads to resource … savings only if not outweighed by growing final demand and imported inefficiency, which only occurred for the USA. The MF …