Economic Conundrum The West turned unhappy with China’s trade and economic practices before Donald Trump, but it is unclear that his approach to the problem is working. While the trade hit on U.S. agriculture is clear, the American side is generally faring worse from the trade war. China’s overall exports to the U.S. were down 12.4 percent during January-June 2019 versus a year earlier, but American sales to China were off 19 percent. Indicative of Beijing’s stronger level of economic control over Washington is its foreign direct investment (FDI) in the U.S., which plummeted from $46 billion in 2016 to just $5 billion in 2018. By contrast, U.S. annual FDI into China has stayed consistent at around $13-14 billion. Even i...
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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.