The U.S. Senate passed an infrastructure investment package today, a prerequisite by the Biden Administration before Washington will again reduced barriers to trade. However, conditioning freer trade on this infrastructure package could end up being a drag on the economy. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated yesterday that “we must first make a generational investment in our own competitiveness” before any new trade deals. He cited the fact that China has been investing three times as much on infrastructure as the U.S. but like waiting for investment to trade, there is a certain shallowness to the proposition. China has three times the number of people and due to decades of Maoism, it has been scramblin...
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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.