Ethiopia: An Ideal Investment Destination?
July 19th, 2017
Via AllAfrica, a report on Ethiopia’s investment potential: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been steadily growing in Ethiopia due to the various incentives both federal and regional governments offer to investors. The incentives include tax holidays, improved bureaucracy and infrastructure development. The government has been investing heavily to improve the country’s infrastructure that added values […]
Read more »Turkmenistan Gas Pipeline To Reach Afghanistan Borders Soon
July 12th, 2017
Via TOLO News, a report on a gas pipeline network to be established in Torghundi border town in Herat, aimed at enabling Afghan businessmen to purchase the Turkmenistan imported gas: President Ashraf Ghani’s advisor on Central Asian countries’ affairs, Mohammad Shakir Kargar, on Wednesday said Turkmenistan’s natural gas pipeline will arrive at Torghundi border town in […]
Read more »China Plans $2B Investment In Syria
July 12th, 2017
Via the Times of Central Asia, a report on China’s $2 billion investment plan for Syria: China plans to invest $2 billion in the creation of an industrial park in Syria that will initially bring together 150 Chinese companies, Qin Yong, the deputy chairman of the China-Arab Exchange Association, announced on July 9 during the first […]
Read more »Afghanistan – Turkmenistan Tango: Diversifying Transit Routes
July 11th, 2017
Via Ariana News, a report on Afghanistan’s efforts to diversify transit corridors with its bordering neighbors: Afghanistan is in the process of limiting Pakistan’s veto options on transportation of goods and looking at other routes being a landlocked country. Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani visited Turkmenistan on July 3 upon invitation by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov. Oguzkhan […]
Read more »Harvard Kennedy School CID Projects Pakistan GDP Growth to Average 5.97% Till 2025
July 9th, 2017
Via , an interesting look at Pakistan’s economic growth trajectory: In its latest economic growth projections, Kennedy School’s Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University expects Pakistan’s annual GDP growth to average 5.97% over the next 8 years, ranking it as the world’s 6th fastest growing economy. Growth Projections. Source: HKS CID Report The […]
Read more »Entrepreneurs in North Korea? Not As Rare As One Might Think
July 6th, 2017
Via the Asia Times, a report that more business projects are starting in North Korea: While the eyes of the world are on North Korea’s development of an intercontinental ballistic missile, observers say innovation of another kind is occurring in the secretive socialist country. North Koreans are increasingly starting business projects and “essentially managing their own economic destiny,” […]
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.