Ethiopia Opens Door to the World With Unprecedented Privatization Plan
June 9th, 2018
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, an article on Ethiopia’s announced privatization plan, a move that present one of the biggest business opportunities in Africa to foreign and domestic private investors, but also one of the most complex: Ethiopia said it plans to sell stakes in some of the country’s most-prized assets after decades of state […]
Read more »Investors: Putting Somaliland On The Map
June 6th, 2018
Via Ozy, an interesting look at investing in Somaliland: Hong Kong–based American business developer Robby Zirkelbach has set up small firms in South Sudan, Iran and North Korea. But Somalia was too risky even for the former U.S. Marine sniper with a stomach for adventurous investments, until he stumbled upon the country’s north, the self-declared Republic of […]
Read more »BRI: A Web of Silk?
June 3rd, 2018
Via The Economist, a report on China’s efforts to build a “digital Silk Road: CHINA’S vague but much-vaunted Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been providing buzzword fodder for government leaders and official sloganeers since 2013, when the country launched the scheme to extend its political and economic influence abroad by investing in infrastructure and other […]
Read more »Turkmenistan’s Natural Gas Dilemma
June 2nd, 2018
Via Oil Daily, an article on Turkmenistan’s hydrocarbon future: Amid much (obligatory) fanfare, Turkmenistan has intensified its spin campaign on TAPI, the long-delayed pipe dream of President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov which is supposed to supply Afghanistan, Pakistan and India with Turkmen natural gas. Turkmenistan claims it is on the brink of securing the $8 billion it […]
Read more »Turkmenistan Seeking Investment For Galkynysh Field To Support TAPI Ambitions
June 1st, 2018
Via AzerNews, a report on Turkmenistan and TAPI: Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov ordered to attract foreign investments for the Galkynysh gas field in order to implement the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. “The head of state also ordered to intensify the work on attracting foreign investments for the construction of the Galkynysh gas field, where […]
Read more »The Belt and Road’s Impact On Small, High-Risk Markets
June 1st, 2018
Via Reconnecting Asia, an interesting look at BRI’s impact on frontier markets: China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) will have its biggest impact on small, high-risk, frontier markets in South, Southeast, and Central Asia. As measured by BMI Research’s Key Projects Database, the value of prospective, planned, and ongoing China-backed infrastructure projects in countries like […]
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.