Potential For Technology To Help Tajikistan Diversify Its Economy
June 14th, 2017
Via the Times of Central Asia, a report on the potential of digital technology to help Tajikistan diversify its economy: Digital Tajikistan can be an important source of innovation, growth, and employment – provided that the country invests more in people’s skills, improves the business environment, and strengthens the digital infrastructure, according to a recent […]
Read more »Sudan: China’s Original Foothold in Africa
June 14th, 2017
Via The Diplomat, an interesting look at China’s relationship with Sudan: China’s legacy in Sudan is immediately visible in downtown Khartoum. Near where the Blue and White Nile join to form the world’s longest river sits the People’s Friendship Cooperation Hall, a gift from China to the People’s Republic to Sudan that dates to 1976. […]
Read more »Pakistan: The Next Asian Tiger?
June 3rd, 2017
Courtesy of The Diplomat, an article on Pakistan’s new “emerging market” status: Pakistan is on track. Against the backdrop of its long fight against terrorism over the past 15 years, Pakistan has achieved an economic milestone — gaining the status of an “emerging market” in MSCI’s latest review. MSCI will add Pakistan to the Emerging Market […]
Read more »The Ten Fastest Growing Economies Are All Emerging Markets
June 2nd, 2017
Via ValueWalk, commentary on frontier market “myths”: Although frontier markets are a small subset of the emerging market universe, we think they represent an important constituency that offer some compelling potential opportunities. Here, I’ve invited my colleague Carlos Hardenberg, senior vice president and director of frontier markets strategies at Templeton Emerging Markets Group, to outline […]
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.