Betraying Self-Designation China’s Communist Party is celebrating what it called a “complete victory” over extreme poverty in the country. President Xi Jinping credited the socialist system for “guarantees against risks, challenges and difficulties.” The People’s Daily newspaper proclaimed that, “General Secretary Xi Jinping has stood at the strategic height of building a well-off society in an all-around way and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.” A “well-off” society with guarantees against difficulties should not concurrently designate itself a developing country in need of special and differential treatment under international trade la...
From WPI Consulting
Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.