Inside Kazakhstan’s Incredible Economic Transformation
December 7th, 2016
Via Forbes, an interesting look at Kazakhstan: Suitably, the headquarters of National Welfare Fund Samruk-Kazyna is located in a pair of opulent gold-mirrored towers that rise up from the heart of Astana, the 19-year-old planned capital of Kazakhstan. Standing out stark and meaningfully from the menagerie of futuristic, contorted, anachronistic, and otherwise mismatching architecture of […]
Read more »MTN + Irancell = Profit Opportunity At Last?
December 6th, 2016
Via Techrasa, some commentary on MTN’s operations in Iran: After becoming the second largest Mobile Network Operator in Iran, MTN now wants to invest in e-commerce in the country. MTN has been working in Iran since 2005 with its 49% share in Irancell, the second largest Mobile Network Operator in the country. Since then with the […]
Read more »Iran-Azerbaijan-Georgia Corridor To Launch In 1 Month
November 26th, 2016
Via The Iran Project, a report on a corridor that will carry shipments from the Black Sea – between Eastern/Southeastern Europe and Western Asia: Iran, Azerbaijan and Georgia are carrying out a plan to make operational a long-overdue corridor that will carry shipments from the Black Sea – between Eastern/Southeastern Europe and Western Asia – to […]
Read more »China About to Start $35 Billion of Silk Road Plan in Pakistan
November 25th, 2016
Via Bloomberg, a report on China’s plans to start its investment in Pakistan as part of its Silk Road initiative: More than three quarters of $46 billion of planned Chinese-led investment in Pakistan will be implemented by next year as part of the world’s second-largest economy’s flagship Silk Road plan. “Out of this $46 billion, […]
Read more »Russia Lacks Infrastructure to Take Part in China’s Silk Road
November 25th, 2016
Via Window on Eurasia, a report on Russia’s infrastructure limitations to participate in China’s Silk Road project and Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Turkey and Afghanistan’s efforts to create the Lazurian corridor,” a new railroad and canal transit network “connecting Central and South Asia with the Caspian, Black Sea and Mediterranean basins: Moscow has complained about and done […]
Read more »Why Is China So Interested In Investing In Rwanda?
November 23rd, 2016
Via Quartz, an interesting look at China’s interest in investing in Rwanda, a landlocked country with few natural resources: It’s hard not to see China’s footprint wherever one goes in Rwanda. Chinese engineers have designed and built the country’s tallest building, Kigali City Tower, a gleaming 20-story glass skyscraper; the building that houses Rwanda’s foreign […]
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.