The White House unveiled the President’s FY 2023 Budget request today, which is but one step in a long and usually volatile budget debate. The President’s budget submission is required by law (Congressional Budget Act of 1974) to be submitted to Congress, but it is only a request. Both Houses of Congress under the process laid out in the 1974 Act craft their own budget resolutions, which is then subject to a House Senate Conference to complete a final Congressional Budget Resolution. A budget resolution does not need to be signed by the President; rather it is a Congressional document that is intended to set the legislative agenda both for legislative authority to spend federal monies (known as mandatory spending) and for...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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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.