Lagos: Soon To Be Africa’s 13th Biggest Economy – Equivalent To Ghana
May 18th, 2013
Via How We Made It In Africa, a report on Lagos’ economic power: Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub, could soon have a US$45 billion economy – equivalent to that of Ghana, according to a recent report produced by Renaissance Capital economist Yvonne Mhango. Mhango says that the size of Lagos State’s economy is currently about US$32 […]
Read more »Commerce In Kabul
May 17th, 2013
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on doing business in Afghanistan: Hassina Syed, founder and chief executive of Afghanistan’s Syed Group, seems remarkably calm for a mother of three who has spent time in a crowded Kabul jail for failing to pay protection money to the police and has sent her older children […]
Read more »Oilmen Ready For Risky Push Into Somalia
May 16th, 2013
Via Energy Daily, a look at planned oil development in Somalia: Foreign companies are getting ready to undertake the risky business of exploring for oil in war-torn Somalia, a quest that could trigger new conflict as the Western-backed government struggles to stop die-hard Islamist insurgents. “The world’s leading oil companies are increasingly accepting that their […]
Read more »A Tired Tiger? Vietnam’s Star Is Dimming
May 12th, 2013
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a sobering look at Vietnam: Like other would-be tiger economies, Vietnam faces a trifecta of new threats: a crisis-paralyzed Europe, a faltering America, and a newly spendthrift Japan. Yet the biggest risk to the nation’s future may be old-fashioned nostalgia. It has been 27 years since Hanoi launched the “Doi Moi” reforms […]
Read more »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 »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.