According to the news, multilateralism and globalization are in crisis. No less than U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently said, “it’s not hard to imagine a world where we break into these blocs again.” Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said there’s a growing feeling of a world that’s “forming blocs and choosing up teams.” Then again, R.E.M. sang, “It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.” This is the 25th anniversary of the Asian Financial Crisis. Although it notably adversely impacted Southeast Asia plus Korea and Japan, critics charged that it revealed the flaw in global integration. Global trade in major agricultural commodities that had been grow...
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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.