Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on Iran’s new contract regime: The Iran Petroleum Contract has passed a major milestone, with the first two foreign firms signing a preliminary agreement under the terms. The contractual regime, put in place in April 2016 and meant to help attract $130 billion in foreign investment, is part of moderate […]
Read more »Via The Eurasia Review, a look at Myanmar’s position in the growing competition between China and India over energy resources: Since the early 1990s, China’s remarkable economic growth has led to a dramatic increase in its domestic energy needs, prompting its state-owned national oil companies (NOCs) to embark upon a worldwide search for oil and […]
Read more »Courtesy of Investment Frontier, a list of the safest frontier markets to invest in: Our rankings rely on three main sources of rankings: the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Rankings, Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, and the Fund For Peace’s Fragile States Index. Our previous rankings relied on the 2015 rankings from all three […]
Read more »Via The Iran Project, a report on Iran’s telephony market: When Twitter’s Jack Dorsey tweeted Hassan Rouhani in 2013 to ask if any of the citizens of his country were able to read the Iranian president’s tweets, he probably did not expect a response. To the surprise of many in the West, Mr Rouhani quickly […]
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