Davos Dirt Speaking to Bloomberg News this week at the World Economic Forum, Liu He, the top financial and economic adviser to President Xi Jinping, said that “China has stood firm against all forms of protectionism.” U.S. agricultural exports to China, which face countervailing duties and other barriers there, are down 17 percent for the first quarter of the new marketing year. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told reporters, “Many countries are good at the rhetoric of free trade, but in fact actually practice extreme protectionism.” Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the current president of the African Union, meets with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday. Fellow African officials hope to learn what Trump rea...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.