In a Change, Mexico Reins In Its Oil Monopoly
April 24th, 2012
Via The New York Times, a look at the Mexican government’s increasing role in Pemex’s daily operations: Pemex, the state-owned oil company, invested billions at the Chicontepec field, but has extracted little petroleum. For seven decades, Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil monopoly and a mainstay of the government’s revenue, regulated itself — which is a polite […]
Read more »Bangladesh: Strong Promise of Growth
April 24th, 2012
Via The New York Times, a report on Bangladesh: Bangladesh is probably one of the last places in Asia people would expect to see a thriving beachside resort with luxury hotels. And yet, Cox’s Bazar is exactly that — a place where affluent Bangladeshis go for a weekend of seaside fun. During the high season, […]
Read more »Myanmar Investing: Early Days Yet
April 24th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Myanmar’s investment potential: Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s landslide victory in parliamentary by-elections in Myanmar has effectively fired a starting gun around the investment world. The result would give her National League for Democracy party 6 per cent of the seats in parliament should legal and […]
Read more »Can Myanmar Mimic China’s Transition?
April 24th, 2012
Via Asia News Network, a look at the potential of Myanmar to follow China’s development path: China has been praised for its successful economic development after adopting a market economy. It has overtaken Japan to become the world’s second-largest economy. Now Myanmar has started to open up to the world. It will be interesting to […]
Read more »Laos
April 21st, 2012
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at Laos’s economic potential in light of the changes happening in the region: Long one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has moved in recent years to capitalize on the region’s robust economic growth and increased integration by recasting itself as a “corridor country” able to […]
Read more »The Pipeline That Wasn’t: Myanmar-Bangladesh-India Natural Gas Pipeline
April 21st, 2012
Courtesy of The Journal of Energy Security, a report on a potential Myanmar-Bangladesh-India natural gas pipeline that did not come to fruition: The lack of convergence in the energy security policies of India and Bangladesh has impacted the outcome of the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India (MBI) pipeline project. This project, envisaged as an important aspect of the energy […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.