Aspirations of Pakistan’s Middle Class
August 14th, 2018
Via the Arab News, interesting commentary on Pakistan’s middle class: Pakistan’s recent elections, which crowned the rise of Imran Khan from cricket star to likely prime minister, spawned numerous hand-wringing articles of the “whither Pakistan?” variety. Most of the articles in the global media focused on a similar theme: The multiple and multiplying economic, social […]
Read more »Afghanistan: Recovering from the Brink of Economic Collapse?
August 4th, 2018
Via National Interest, a look at Afghanistan’s economic situation: As recently as four years ago, Afghanistan’s war economy was on the brink of collapse when unemployment soared following the departure of thousands of American and foreign forces that had, in effect, created a parallel economy. At the time, the Afghan government had no functioning fiscal […]
Read more »Venezuela: Striking It Poor
August 2nd, 2018
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a sobering look at the tragic — and totally avoidable — self-destruction of one of the world’s richest oil economies: In the spring of 1959, at a secretive meeting at a yacht club in Cairo, Venezuela’s then-minister of mines and hydrocarbons, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonso, hatched a plan to give big […]
Read more »Infrastructure Boom in Bangladesh Could Herald a New Era for Development
July 27th, 2018
Via Future Directions International, a report on Bangladesh: The development of a number of infrastructure projects in Bangladesh represents a positive shift in the country’s future progress. Construction work for a second nuclear power plant will begin soon, with the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Regulatory Authority (BAERA) granting a design and construction license to the Bangladesh […]
Read more »Guayana’s $20 Billion Question
July 20th, 2018
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on Guyana, a largely underdeveloped country on South America’s northern Atlantic coast that is the unlikely setting for the world’s next big oil boom: Guyana is a vast, watery wilderness with only three paved highways. There are a few dirt roads between villages that sit on stilts […]
Read more »North Korea: A Kimdom Awaits For Investors
July 16th, 2018
Via the Asia Times, a look at how, while many investors are salivating at the prospects in North Korea, a handful of players are already seeing profits: In offices overlooking the Yalu River in Dandong, China, at a rural real estate agency just south of the inter-Korean DMZ, and among the glass and steel office […]
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.