Turkmenistan: Rethinking Regional Relations
August 13th, 2012
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at Turkmenistan’s efforts to reposition itself between Russia and China, economically and strategically: Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov gave a speech Aug. 6 in which he announced that the country’s gross domestic product of this year’s January-July period grew by 11 percent compared to the same period in 2011. […]
Read more »Turkey-Turkmen Energy Cooperation
August 13th, 2012
Via Energy Daily, a report on the growing energy ties between Turkey and Turkmenistan Energy-rich Turkmenistan and energy importer Turkey are deepening bilateral ties. Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhammedov is making a two-day state visit to Turkey, visiting Istanbul and Izmir. Turkey’s energy imports of Turkmen natural gas reportedly remain Ankara’s biggest immediate concern, but Turkey […]
Read more »Chinese Investment In Africa
August 13th, 2012
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a very interesting look at China’s investments in Africa:
Read more »Russian Evolution – Reshaping Putin’s Oil Industry
August 13th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, an examination of Russia’s oil industry and its latest evolution under Putin: Russia’s oil industry has been through two great evolutions since the collapse of communism. Now it is entering its third. First, in the 1990s, former state-owned oil assets were parcelled into vertically-integrated groups and sold off at bargain prices […]
Read more »The Five Largest Economies In Africa
August 13th, 2012
Via Ventures Africa, a look at the five largest economies in Africa: No African nation has yet joined the ranks of the developed nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), but there are some sizeable economies on the continent, and economies that are gradually increasing in size. Though South Africa is by […]
Read more »U.S., Too, Wants to Bolster Investment in a Continent’s Economic Promise
August 9th, 2012
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on increased US interest in African investment: When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clintonlanded in South Africa this week, she brought along a hefty delegation of executives from some of America’s leading companies — Boeing, Walmart, FedEx, G.E. — and a message: America is ready to invest […]
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