Meanwhile, there are partly weak movements in other emerging and commodity-exporting economies, and thus those economies will likely lack growth momentum for the time being, from a longer-term perspective; however, growth rates are expected to pick up again.
Let us use this 1st National Convention as a springboard for setting milestones of performance going forward. Will you simply want to have more graduates of the CMITAP? Or will you measure yourselves against what the graduates themselves can do individually and collectively as part of the CMIP family? How do you pay forward the investment that you have made for yourself?