Will It Scale In Kabul?
May 9th, 2016
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on a handful of ambitious U.S. veterans are launching start-ups in Afghanistan: “This is the valley where I learned empathy,” says Matthew “Griff” Griffin, a former Army captain, holding a photograph of a procession of Army Rangers winding their way through Afghanistan’s snowy Korengal Valley. In November 2003, Griff […]
Read more »“Minegolia” Aims To Reverse Its Fortunes
May 9th, 2016
Via The Globe & Mail, an article on Mongolia: Chimgee remembers the days people crowded in front of her meat market stall, waiting to buy from her storage locker jammed to the ceiling with beef, goat, sheep, camel and horse carcasses. “It was full, and people would line up here to buy from me,” she […]
Read more »New Silk Road: One Step Closer To Reality
May 7th, 2016
Via the World Economic Forum, a report on the new Silk Road: The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank will help fund a highway in Pakistan, a road project in Tajikistan, and a ring road in Almaty, Kazakhstan, according to people with knowledge of the projects and tender documents. The AIIB was formally launched in January after attracting dozens […]
Read more »China Backs Egypt’s New $45 Billion Capital
May 7th, 2016
Via The Wall Street Journal, an interesting article on how a deal to build new capital near Cairo is part of Beijing’s plans to boost business in emerging markets: When President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi announced an ambitious plan to build a new administrative and business capital for Egypt on 270 square miles of desert land, many were […]
Read more »Competition for Southeast Asia’s Railways
May 4th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting look at the competition between China and Japan over the right to build up Southeast Asia’s railways: Forecast In the coming years, Southeast Asia will build up connectivity through projects that include high-speed rail, as part of its broader integration goals. Lacking the capital to fund these efforts […]
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.