The ‘23 Fund’: A New Model For Growth Capital In World’s Poorest Countries
June 19th, 2017
Via ImpactAlpha, an interesting look at how impact-driven growth capital can be aggregated and invested in frontier markets: One of the biggest current challenges for the impact investing community is the aggregation and deployment of growth capital equity in the world’s poorest countries. Few would argue with the proposition that for the world’s poorest countries to […]
Read more »Investors Hunt For Hidden Frontier Market Gems
June 19th, 2017
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how frontier market risk is improving as financial infrastructure matures and a middle class emerges: As the world’s biggest asset manager, BlackRock has the resources to send its employees to all corners of the globe. But while the majority of that business travel involves unremarkable visits to […]
Read more »Uzbekistan And China Start Gas Production In Bukhara Region
June 19th, 2017
Via Times of Central Asia, a report on joint Chinese-Uzbek gas production in Uzbekistan: Uzbekistan’s national oil and gas company Uzbekneftegaz and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) have launched natural gas production at Dengizkul, Khodjadavlat and Sharkiy Alat gas condensate fields in the Bukhara region of Uzbekistan, the Jahon information agency reported. The new gas […]
Read more »India And Afghanistan Attempt To Bypass Their Obstructive Neighbour
June 19th, 2017
Via Frontera News, a look at India and Afghanistan’s efforts to bypass Pakistan: Regional allies India and Afghanistan are stepping up their efforts to strengthen commercial ties with the development of air and land transport corridors bypassing Pakistan, which obstructs trade between the two countries. India believes bolstering trading links with Afghanistan will also help […]
Read more »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 »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.