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 »Southern Africa
June 1st, 2018
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at the economic prospects of several southern African nations: Over the past year, new leaders have replaced long-entrenched presidents in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Angola. Each country’s political environment has evolved since the changing of the guard, bringing opportunities for the type of economic development that wouldn’t have […]
Read more »Namibia: The New Commercial Gateway To Southern Africa?
May 24th, 2018
Via Ozy, an interesting look at Namibia: The quaint town of Swakopmund is Namibia’s fastest-growing tourist destination. Visitors flock here to experience the incongruity of German colonial buildings on the edge of an African desert, the allure of the treacherous Skeleton Coast and the promise of seeing 1,500-year-old welwitschias growing in the so-called Moon Landscape. […]
Read more »From War Room To Boardroom In Egypt
May 20th, 2018
Via Reuters, an interesting look at how – in the four years since former armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi became Egypt’s president – companies owned by the military have gone from strength to strength: In a four-decade military career, Osama Abdel Meguid served in the first Gulf War and was an assistant military attaché […]
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