Turkmenistan Still Has An Option To Direct Its Gas Westward
August 11th, 2017
Via Trend, a report on Turkmenistan’s gas export options: Enormous quantities of natural gas are concentrated in one limited (Caspian) region. The nations that own it – Russia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan – each has its market to sell the gas, but all of them would willingly diversify their gas export in order not to […]
Read more »China’s Maritime Silk Road
August 9th, 2017
Via Forbes, an interesting look at China deal to take over a key Abu Dhabi port: The next stop on China’s “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” has been chosen: Abu Dhabi. At the end of last month, China’s Jiangsu province signed a $300 million deal with the UAE’s Abu Dhabi Ports to develop a manufacturing operation in the […]
Read more »CPEC Invigorating Blue Diplomacy
August 9th, 2017
Via the Pakistan Observer, an article on OBOR, CPEC, and the impact on regional diplomacy: Seas play a vital role for diplomacy and trade in global environment and have shaped Blue Diplomacy. Pakistan has been blessed with large area of Arabian Sea (termed as warm waters) encompassing 290,000 Sq. km with three main ports Karachi, Port Qasim and Gwadar. […]
Read more »Tajikistan: Pakistan’s Gateway to Central Asia
August 7th, 2017
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Islamabad and Dushanbe have grown closer, pulled together by mutually beneficial energy projects: Tajikistan, a Central Asian state formerly part of the Soviet Union, has an area of 143,100 square kilometers and a population of 7.1 million. The country borders Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and China. It is separated […]
Read more »Emerging Markets will Dominate List of World’s 10 Largest Economies by 2050
August 6th, 2017
Via Frontera, a graphical look at how emerging markets will dominate the world’s largest economies by 2050: This rally in emerging markets stocks and bonds has given rise to worries that the rally may be over and markets may go downhill from here. But if we look beyond the cyclicality of financial markets, emerging markets […]
Read more »Startups Unleashing Potential of Iran’s Demographic Bonus
August 6th, 2017
Via Techrasa, an interesting look at Iran’s demographic bulge and how it may impact investment opportunities: Since 2006, Iran’s demographic age composition has been marked by a phenomenon known as the “demographic dividend” or “window of opportunity” by demographers and economists. Can startups unleash the potential of this golden opportunity? [1] The working age population […]
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.