Geopolitics Trumps Trade President Joe Biden hosted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today despite the latter’s dubious record on democracy and religious freedom. Biden is seeking Modi’s support in the competition with China and wants less Indian cooperation with Russia. By contrast, U.S. Congressional leaders want Biden to pressure Modi to open his country up to more imports from America. India is a highly protectionist country and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate Finance Committee characterized it as follows: “India unreasonably maintains extremely high tariffs and burdensome licensing requirements; administers purported agricultural safety measures that lack any scientific justification; an...
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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.