Public Policy Xi Looks To Third Term as Golden Holiday Celebration Arrives With China’s Communist Party set to hold its 20th national congress on 16 October, questions abound about whether Xi’s unprecedented third term will produce results. The track record so far in 2022 has been one of the worst economic environment’s for the country in the past two decades. With Q2 gross domestic product advancing by just .4 percent year-on-year and the outlook for Q3 projecting an uptick of just .8 percent, due the severe real estate crisis, ongoing lockdowns, and lackluster consumer spending, market confidence is at low point not seen since the 1990s. When Xi came to power in 2013, his new administration put forth a broad pla...
Russian Grain Markets: 29 June-3 July 2026 The new marketing season has officially begun in Russia, although bearish sentiment has been concentrated in the southern regions closest to the Black Sea ports, where export demand has been weakest. Delays in grain deliveries to inland elevators have...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
Yesterday we wrote about the Q1 GDP numbers and the June employment reports in an article entitled Real GDP for Q1 Relying on AI Buildout, Held Back by Consumer Spending. That article mentioned that consumer spending had become a drag on GDP. Nonetheless, real GDP in Q1 was revised upward to 2...
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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.