Dour Trade Prognosis Respondents to WPI’s last survey favored a resolution to the U.S.-China trade war in 2019 (see Hope versus Expectation below), but what are the prospects for an agreement? Expert observers are widely split, although they lean toward skepticism. A new Nikkei survey of economists indicates that China’s economy will slow to 6.2 percent in 2019, the slowest growth in three decades. However, President Xi Jinping and his acolytes are determined to outlast Donald Trump. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has hardliners driving his campaign; U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer is noted for being very difficult. Notably, the Democratic Party in the U.S. is trying to reclaim the labor union/blue collar base that it los...
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Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.