China And Central Asia: Trade And The New Silk Road Economic Belt
September 22nd, 2013
Via the Carnegie Endowment, an interesting look at China’s growing influence in Central Asia: China has come to displace both the United States and Russia as the great power with the most influence in Central Asia. Chinese President Xi Jinping just ran a ten-day victory lap through the region. Rarely has a leader of a […]
Read more »Venezuela Secures Energy Deals With China
September 22nd, 2013
Via the Wall Street Journal, a report on China’s recent deals with Venezuela: Venezuela will partner with China National Petroleum Corp. on a $14 billion development project in the country’s Orinoco heavy oil belt, one of a handful of investments secured by Venezuelan officials during a trip to China this week in preparation for President […]
Read more »Turkey: Positioning To Cash In On A Stable Somalia
September 18th, 2013
Via Quartz, an interesting article on Turkey’s engagement with Somalia: Dumpsters from the city of Istanbul, which is leading sanitation operations in Mogadishu. Two flags now fly over Mogadishu. There’s the Somali one, of course: white star, blue background. The other’s rise over the battered concrete sprawl is more recent. It flies over schools and […]
Read more »Iran’s Oil Industry: Dreaming Of A New Golden Age
September 17th, 2013
Via The Economist, an article on Iran’s hopes for new investment in its oil sector: IRAN, like Mexico, has a new and more reform-minded president who wants to loosen the national oil company’s grip on his country’s massive reserves, and bring in private investment to boost output. One big difference is that Iran’s ability to […]
Read more »China’s Developing World Edge
September 15th, 2013
Via The Diplomat, a look at efforts to engage the developing world: Since Deng Xiaoping’s administration launched its Reform and Opening Up policies in the late 1970s, China has integrated hundreds of millions of its citizens into the global economy, resulting in poverty alleviation on an unprecedented scale. This is in no small part due […]
Read more »Why Is Zambia So Poor?
September 12th, 2013
Via Pacific Standard, an in-depth look at Zambia which isn’t a failed state in the traditional sense (i.e. there’s no dictator, no child soldiers, etc.), but most of its 14 million people live on less than $1 per day. How did things get this way, and can they ever get better? Before we get started, […]
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.