The Pipeline From Hell
September 24th, 2013
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at the Iran-Pakistan pipeline project: During his trip to Pakistan last month, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry warned Pakistan that it could face U.S. sanctions if it continues to pursue plans to build a pipeline and import natural gas from Iran. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been […]
Read more »Sub-Saharan Africa: Competition Is Heating Up
September 24th, 2013
Via Emerging Markets Insights, a look at competition and opportunity in sub-Saharan Africa: Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is the second-fastest growing region in the world, growing at an average of 5.6% per year. Our recent Regional Overview for Sub-Saharan Africa shows that the size of the SSA economy will double in size in less than 20 […]
Read more »China Finds Resistance To Oil Deals In Africa
September 22nd, 2013
Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting article on recent Chinese efforts to acquire oil deposits in Africa: In Niger, government officials have fought a Chinese oil giant step by step, painfully undoing parts of a contract they call ruinous. In neighboring Chad, they have been even more forceful, shutting down the Chinese and […]
Read more »Supermarkets In Africa
September 22nd, 2013
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at grocery retailing in Africa: A SHORT drive along Cairo Road, a clogged artery that runs through Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, affords a glimpse of the progress South Africa’s big grocery chains have made in the rest of Africa. The rather dowdy Shoprite store situated on the busy […]
Read more »Coca-Cola To Invest Over US$50m Into Uzbekistan In 2014
September 22nd, 2013
Via Emerging Frontiers, a report of a planned large scale investment into Uzbekistan: American firm Coca-Cola is planning to invest over US$50million into Uzbekistan in 2014, a regional manager of Coca-Cola Oleg Piletsky said at the US-Uzbek Business Forum. Annual US-Uzbek Business Forum was held in Washington, the United States, on 5 September 2013. Speaking […]
Read more »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 »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.