A Somali Spring?
September 27th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a report on Somalia: After the twin suicide attacks that killed 14 people in Mogadishu last week and an assassination attempt on the president a little more than a week before that, predictions of a Somali Spring would seem to be, at the very least, premature. But buried beneath the grisly headlines […]
Read more »What Can Myanmar Sell?
September 27th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at what Myanmar may export to help drive its economy: Myanmar used to be a major exporter of many products – from rice to clothing to its world-famous red rubies. But crippling sanctions left the country with few willing buyers aside from China and India who just wanted […]
Read more »Laos: Country Snapshot
September 21st, 2012
Via Emerging Frontiers blog, a detailed look at Laos: Overview Laos has 6,586,266 people dispersed unevenly across a country that covers 236,800 sq km. The country borders Myanmar and China in the north, Vietnam to the west, Thailand on its eastern border, and Cambodia in the south. Following a period of conflict and civil war, […]
Read more »5 Reasons to Believe in the Indonesian Miracle
September 21st, 2012
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an interesting commentary on Indonesia’s economic potential and why it is on track to be the world’s seventh largest economy: When most people think of Indonesia today, they think of beaches and temples or of its famously teeming cities, but this country of 240 million and counting is a much more […]
Read more »Frontier Markets: Extreme Investing?
September 21st, 2012
Courtesy of BusinessWeek, a report on frontier markets: Freetown, Sierra Leone As far as investing goes, the economic battlefronts of Europe, China, and the U.S. seem like the only concern. Meanwhile, as if it could not care less about all that, Sierra Leone, the West African nation still shellshocked from years of truly horrific bloodshed, […]
Read more »India Retail: A Tricky Sell
September 21st, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at India’s pending retail (r)evolution: Parts of India took to the streets (or at least shut their shops) on Thursday to protest the reforms the Indian government introduced last Friday, chief among them the opening up of multi-brand retail to 51 per cent investment by foreign companies – Tesco, […]
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.