Kazakhstan: Connecting East And West
February 14th, 2014
Courtesy of Ozy, a detailed look at Kazakhstan: It doesn’t take more than a few minutes in Astana — Kazakhstan’s futuristic new capital — to make you forget what little you may have assumed about the country, most of it no doubt from a certain Sacha Baron Cohen movie.Until about a decade ago, Astana was […]
Read more »Investing In A Country That Doesn’t Exist: Somaliland’s Hard Sell
February 10th, 2014
Via the Daily Maverick, an interesting article on investment in Somalialand, the self-declared republic which is desperate for someone to find vast mineral reserves under its soil: At the recently concluded Mining Indaba in Cape Town, Somaliland’s energy minister Hussein Abdi Dualeh had possibly the hardest sell of all. It was his job to convince […]
Read more »Manufacturing In Africa: An Awakening Giant
February 10th, 2014
Courtesy of The Economist, a look at Africa’s manufacturing potential: LESS than an hour’s drive outside Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, a farmer walks along a narrow path on a green valley floor after milking his cows. Muhammad Gettu is carrying two ten-litre cans to a local market, where he will sell them for less than […]
Read more »The Great Venezuelan Oil Bust
February 10th, 2014
Via the Globe and Mail, an interesting look at Venezuela’s petroleum industry: When Venezuelan oil minister Rafael Ramirez recently announced an ambitious new target of six million barrels per day by 2019, the state-run press heralded the imminent expansion of an industry vital to the country’s health. But people here heard the news and rolled […]
Read more »Frontier Markets: Investing In Mongolia
February 8th, 2014
Via Forbes, a report on Mongolia: On the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, a nomadic family of herders is sitting outside their ger (the family tent commonly called a “yurt” in the West) watching Bloomberg TV…on a high-definition flat-screen television powered by a mobile solar generator and a satellite dish. As Harris HRS +2.92% Kupperman, President of […]
Read more »Smart Development: How Colombia, Mexico, and Singapore Beat the BRICS
February 5th, 2014
Via Foreign Affairs, an interesting report on the importance of – when comparing emerging economies – considering more than just economic growth rates and examining nations’ capacity to develop thriving welfare systems and ensure human development: The past two decades have been all about the BRICS: a group of five countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, […]
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.