India's Budget and Its Impact India's budget for the next fiscal year was unveiled last week. Many hoped there would be an announcement to fast-track the economy and to help the middle class survive the country's rising inflation. Finance Minister P. Chidambaram did try to provide a balanced budget, but he announced very few bold moves. Nothing too drastic can be done this year because it is the government's last budget plan before the country's elections in 2014."The purpose of a budget is to create the economic space and find the resources to achieve the socioeconomic objectives," Chidambaram said. "At present, the economic space is constrained because of a high fiscal deficit; reliance on foreign inflows to finance the current account...
Key Takeaways: Brazil confirmed a Newcastle disease outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in Santa Catarina on 18 October, raising concerns about potential disruptions to poultry exports despite the outbreak being confined to a single facility thus far. Mexico and Malaysia have imposed nationwi...
Yesterday, Alberta held a referendum on whether to begin the process toward independence from Canada. With more than one million votes counted as of early Tuesday morning, around 77 percent supported remaining in Canada, and 23 percent voted to start the process of separation, according to unof...
Mediterranean/Middle East/North Africa/Africa – MEA Region Pakistan’s smaller wheat farmers have been holding protests to complain about the lack of a support price for wheat and the potential expansion of GMO crop production. They also want the reinstatement of PASSCO, the governme...
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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.