How Morocco Could Take Over Western Africa
August 14th, 2014
Via Ozy, an interesting look at how Morocco, already an important economic hub on the African continent, is now preparing to go global: The word “Casablanca” evokes ancient souks and bazaars, maybe Rick’s Café Américain — not so much “modern financial hub.” Yet, Morocco’s bustling commercial capital is becoming just that. And now, this […]
Read more »Mozambique: Natural Resources to Provide Catalyst for Further Development
August 13th, 2014
Courtesy of Future Directions International, a detailed look at Mozambique, where large reserves of natural resources in Mozambique are attracting foreign investment, which is expected to boost the already-growing economy: After a decade-long civil war, Mozambique was one of the world’s poorest countries. Now, however, it has one of the world’s fastest growing economies. Gross […]
Read more »ISIS: The World’s Most Frightening Start Up
August 11th, 2014
Via Fortune, an interesting look at the business dealings of the Islamist extremist group ISIS: Every startup needs financing and a market to succeed. So, too, for the Islamist extremist group ISIS—or simply the Islamic State, as it calls itself—whose fighters stormed across the Syrian border into Iraq in June and seized the country’s second-biggest […]
Read more »Majority Of Fastest Growing Economies Will Be Frontier Markets Through 2015
August 9th, 2014
Via FMG Funds, an interesting look at a forecast projecting that, through 2015, 39 of the 45 fastest growing economies will be frontier markets: Today’s young people will be tomorrow’s consumers and producers. When one considers the 20 most populous nations, 9 are considered Frontier Markets, 8 are Emerging Markets and only 3 are Developed Markets.
Read more »MTN: Syria Calling
August 7th, 2014
Courtesy of the Financial Times, a report on MTN’s plans to acquire a mobile phone license in Syria: Syria’s capital Damascus MTN is pressing ahead with plans to acquire a 20-year mobile phone licence in Syria, in spite of the four-year civil conflict in the Arab nation that has seen thousands killed. Africa’s biggest mobile […]
Read more »North Korea’s Art Factory Has An International Market Niche
August 6th, 2014
Via the Daily Beast, a look at a very interesting niche North Korean company: Did the Hermit Kingdom’s Soviet-style Kim Jong-il statue catch your eye? You’re in luck! The art studio-cum-propaganda factory is taking international orders. There are a lot of things North Korea is known for—threats of missile strikes, visits from Dennis Rodman, collecting […]
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.