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Prime Policy Group represents Puerto Rico’s Senate as it pushes for a broad range of economic development issues in Washington.
COVID-19 walloped the US Commonwealth’s economy in 2020 as it contracted by 4.4 percent, according to a report by Estudios Tecnicos, a consulting firm.
The island’s GDP is expected to slip 0.9 percent this year and grow by 1.5 percent in 2022 and 2 percent in 2023.
Estudios Technicos projects Puerto Rico’s modest economic growth prospects will spur an exodus from the island, reducing its population from 3.2M to 3M by 2025.
Prime Policy Group’s chairman Charlie Black, who has worked in the presidential campaigns of presidents Reagan, Bush I and Bush II, spearheads his firm’s Puerto Rico’s lobbying team, which includes managing director Paul Weiss, who was chief of staff to PR’s non-voting member of the US Congress and governor Anibal Acevedo-Vilá.
Prime Policy Group is part of BCW, a unit of WPP.
Development Counsellors International is working with Economic Development Winnipeg to position that Canadian city as a premier location for business investment.
The Vogel Group is working with the Ukraine Future Business Council to promote an environment to support the growth of small businesses in the war-battered company.
Edelman and rapper Pharrell Williams have launched Mighty Dream as a creative advocacy shop to serve communities of color.
WPP plans to launch an investment promotion campaign to spur economic development in war-ravaged Ukraine.
WPP has partnered with the Black Equity Organisation, which launched May 24, to advance equal opportunity and justice for Black people in the UK.
