European Investors Bet On Pakistan’s Leading Technology Startups
October 8th, 2015
Via Frontera, an interesting look at Pakistan’s online market sector: Pakistan maintains the world’s sixth largest population, and online businesses there dream of the untapped potential among its consumer base of nearly 200 million people. However, with nationwide internet penetration currently at only 15%, that potential may remain untapped for some time to come. Nonetheless, foreign investors […]
Read more »Investing in Iran? You’d Better Like Tea, Cake and Bureaucracy
October 5th, 2015
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on Iran: Isolated from the global economy for the past decade and with a population of 80 million, Iran is a fertile ground for business. But international investors will have to cope with obstacles including government control of as much as 70 percent of the economy. When Mahdi Yazdizadeh tried […]
Read more »Mexico’s Crude Capitalism
October 5th, 2015
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at Mexico’s new model of Latin American energy policy: When, in 2013, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced a broad reform package that would end the government’s monopoly over the country’s oil sector, his argument was fairly straightforward: Foreign investment could be just the thing to reverse a decade […]
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.