The Century Of Cities
December 11th, 2015
Via the Sustainable Cities Collective, an interesting look at some of the opportunities and challenges facing the world’s metropolises in the 21st century: This is going to be a century of cities. Already 50% of world’s population is urban and this rate is increasing by 10% per year, meaning that by 2035, 70% of world’s population […]
Read more »Can Beijing’s Silk Road Act As A Regional Marshall Plan?
December 2nd, 2015
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, an interesting look at China’s efforts to depict its Silk Road initiative as a way to extend economic development to its troubled inland neighbors: China has long tried to get the West to acknowledge that the Muslim extremist violence that rages from North Africa through the Middle East and onward […]
Read more »South Korean SMEs: Ready For North Korea?
November 30th, 2015
Via the Peterson Institute, a look at the readiness of South Korean SMEs to enter the North Korean market: We are often negative about the business environment in North Korea and the DPRK government’s struggle to solicit foreign investment. With the case of inter-Korean investment, we also find, however, that it is the South Korean […]
Read more »Venezuela’s Energy Profile
November 30th, 2015
Via Eurasia Review, a look at Venezuela’s energy sector: Venezuela is one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of crude oil. The country has been one of the largest exporters of crude oil in the Americas. As a founding member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Venezuela is an important player […]
Read more »China’s New Silk Road: Boom Or Dust For Pakistan?
November 16th, 2015
Via Space Daily, a look at the first stop along a new $46 billion “economic corridor” designed by China in Pakistan: A glossy highway and hundreds of lorries transporting Chinese workers by the thousands: the new Silk Road is under construction in northern Pakistan, but locals living on the border are yet to be convinced they will receive […]
Read more »China’s Growing Energy Partnership With Turkmenistan
November 12th, 2015
Via China Daily, a report on China’s moves to increase its energy cooperation with Turkmenistan: China is ready to push cooperation on energy with Turkmenistan to a new high, President Xi Jinping told his counterpart from the Central Asian nation on Thursday. He made the comment as the two countries renewed their commitment to grow […]
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.