Paraguay Expected To Have Largest Economic Growth In Region
May 12th, 2013
Via Eurasia Review, an interesting look at Paraguay: Earlier this week, in an interview for ‘America Economia’ JP Morgan Economist Franco Uccelli, underlined the expected economic growth of Paraguay during this year, which could be the highest growth in the region. The agricultural production sector is considered to be instrumental in the recently perceived economic […]
Read more »Somalia: Bringing International Bandwidth To Mogadishu
May 10th, 2013
Via Balancing Act, an interesting look at Somalia’s telecom sector: It may be two steps forward and one step back but Somalia is beginning to pick itself up off the ground after years of civil war. In the absence of regulation, a telecoms sector has developed. Now the new Government must put in place regulation […]
Read more »Gazprom Takes A Fall
May 9th, 2013
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on Gazprom: After years as Eurasia’s energy bully, Russia’s state-controlled natural gas monopoly, Gazprom, is getting a taste of its own medicine. Even as Gazprom seeks to build the tallest skyscraper in Europe as its new headquarters in St. Petersburg, pressure from Russia’s neighbors led to a 15 percent […]
Read more »ONGC’s $5 Billion Kazakhstan Oil Deal May Fall Through
May 3rd, 2013
Via NDTV, a look at the status of India’s bid to acquire a large stake in the Kashagam oil field: Oil and Natural Gas Corp’s (ONGC) $5 billion deal to acquire US energy giant ConocoPhillips’ stake in a Kazakhstan oil field is likely to fall through as India hasn’t been able to convince the Central […]
Read more »Building The Economy Of Post-Qaddafi Libya
May 3rd, 2013
Courtesy of Ventures Africa, some thoughts on Libya: Libya has never been a country with a good reputation, and with all of the bad news about terrorism, chaos and disorder that has appeared since the fall of Qaddafi, it’s hard to believe that things are getting better. But with parliamentary elections later this year and […]
Read more »In Frontier Markets, Invest For The Long (And Longer) Term
May 3rd, 2013
Via HBR, an interesting commentary on frontier markets: Earlier this year, I received some lessons on what wins in frontier markets from former Coca Cola CEO Neville Isdell. “Young markets need a long investment horizon,” Neville told me. “U.S. companies, in general, don’t have the long-term view that they need. If a U.S. CEO says […]
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.