‘The Time To Invest In Iran Is Now’
March 15th, 2017
Via the Asia Times, a look at how the shift in the global balance of financing power towards Russia, India and China — especially China — is opening up opportunities for Tehran: It’s a beautiful late winter morning, the snowy Alborz mountains glittering under the sun, and Professor Mohammad Marandi from the faculty of world […]
Read more »The Taliban Stones Commission and the Insurgent Windfall from Illegal Mining
March 12th, 2017
Via the United States Military Academy, a detailed report on the Taliban’s increased footprint in Afghanistan’s mining sector and their efforts to formalize their role in the mining sector by creating the Dabaro Comisyoon, or “Stones Commission”: Afghanistan’s vast mineral deposits, a complex assortment of metals, industrial minerals, mineral fuels, precious and semi-precious gems, and hydrocarbons—including […]
Read more »Papua New Guinea: Not Just Lighting Up China, Japan, and Taiwan Anymore
March 10th, 2017
Via Frontera News, a look at Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea’s mountain ranges and forest-covered hills have attracted the world’s biggest mineral and resource extraction players to tap its landscape. The minerals and energy extraction sector accounts for a good portion of export earnings of the country. 9 years ago, Exxon Mobil (XOM) built a […]
Read more »How Iran Should Translate Its Geopolitical Advantages into Economic Opportunities
March 4th, 2017
Via Iranian Diplomacy, commentary on how Tehran could increase its geopolitical weight by serving as transit route for energy pipelines, and exporting its gas to emerging markets: By serving as transit route for energy pipelines, and exporting its gas to emerging markets, Tehran could increase its geopolitical weight. . Despite an economy revolving around energy, Iran […]
Read more »The Rwandan Patriotic Front’s Business Empire
March 4th, 2017
Courtesy of The Economist, an interesting look at the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s business empire implemented via Crystal Ventures, which has investments in everything from furniture to finance: RWANDA has a reputation for enterprise. Its government has largely stamped out small-scale corruption and trimmed regulations, making the country the second-best place in Africa to do business, […]
Read more »Cote d’Ivoire: Africa’s Fastest Growing Economy
March 2nd, 2017
Via WorldFolio, a report on Cote d’Ivoire: Almost six years after the end of the Second Ivorian Civil War, Côte d’Ivoire has witnessed a successful and peaceful transition to economic growth, bucking regional trends with 8.5% GDP expansion in 2016 Côte d’Ivoire can comfortably be described as booming. Its near-unstoppable economic growth – 8.5% in […]
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.