African Economic Growth: No Need To Dig
November 7th, 2013
Courtesy of The Economist, an interesting look at African economies and how some of the fastest growing nations have not relied upon extractive industries: AFRICA is a continent rich in minerals and oil. China has an economy that requires them in abundance. Since the mid-1990s the economy of sub-Saharan Africa has grown by an […]
Read more »With ASEAN Integration On The Horizon, Cambodia Coaxes Investors
November 6th, 2013
Via Emerging Frontiers, a look at Cambodia: As the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) prepares for its single-market Economic Community in 2015, Cambodia is poised to benefit tremendously from this unification. With President Barack Obama in attendance, Cambodia played host to the 2012 ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh in November. The most salient […]
Read more »The New Emerging Market Multinationals
November 5th, 2013
Via the European Financial Review, an interesting look at four strategies for disrupting markets and building brands being used by emerging market multinationals: In the past decade, a new breed of challenger businesses and brands has burst upon the world stage. Below, Amitava Chattopadhyay, Rajeev Batra, and Aysegul Ozsomer discuss how emerging market multinational corporations […]
Read more »KFC Goes Missing In Syria
October 31st, 2013
Courtesy of The Atlantic, a report on KFC’s decision to give up trying to do business in Syria: Syrians eat at a KFC outlet in Damascus in 2006. It closed its doors this month. In 2006, Kentucky Fried Chicken opened Syria’s first American restaurant in Damascus. The franchise weathered more than two and a half […]
Read more »North Korea: The Next Thailand Of Asia?
October 31st, 2013
Via NK News.org, an interesting report on North Korea: Nearly all communist states tended to have a “main construction project,” an impressive undertaking where, if the newspapers were to be believed, the workers’ enthusiasm for labor produced amazing feats and whose eventual completion would bring an era of unparalleled prosperity. North Korea is no exception. […]
Read more »Portrait Of A Frontier Investor
October 30th, 2013
Courtesy of the Financial Times, an interesting look at Schulze Global Investments, a frontier market investment fund: Pioneer fund: Gabriel Schulze is upbeat about Ethiopia No sooner had US investor Gabriel Schulze moved to China to gain a foothold in the world’s most promising untapped markets eight years ago than he realised he was already […]
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.