The impact of the coronavirus on most national economies is blunt and harmful but especially to those countries that were already poorly structured. Like most countries, Argentina will be driven into recession. It could be said the nation is accustomed to it since it has been in recession for about a third of the time over the past 70 years. However, one unusual impact is that it will likely force Argentina into its ninth default on international loans. Agustin Forzani of the Heinrich Foundation blames Argentina’s predominant use of export taxes for raising government revenues. The country’s use of export taxes in agriculture are well known but Argentina has 585 different export taxes. Forzani argues that the result is th...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.