Tajikistan: Urgent Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises Needed
June 22nd, 2021
Via Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting, a report on Tajikistan’s urgent need to privatize its state-owned enterprises? State-owned enterprises are unprofitable, do not pay taxes, constantly demand incentives, suppress competition and poorly serve consumers, said Marat Mamadshoev, editor-in-chief of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) in Tajikistan. In his opinion, Tajikistan should accelerate […]
Read more »Pacific Undersea Cable Project Sinks After U.S. Warns Against Chinese Bid
June 22nd, 2021
Via Reuters, a report on strategic wrangling over undersea cables: A World Bank-led project declined to award a contract to lay sensitive undersea communications cables after Pacific island governments heeded U.S. warnings that participation of a Chinese company posed a security threat, two sources told Reuters. The former Huawei Marine Networks, now called HMN Technologies […]
Read more »Egypt’s Prospects as an Energy Export Hub Across Three Continents
June 22nd, 2021
Via ISPI Online, a report on Egypt’s potential as an energy export hub: Egypt is on the threshold of becoming a natural gas and electricity export hub, a development which, if it materializes, carries the potential to radically reconfigure the pattern of energy connectivity between Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Reorienting the energy architecture at […]
Read more »Venezuela’s Maduro Pleads for Foreign Capital, Biden Deal in Caracas Interview
June 22nd, 2021
Via Bloomberg, a report on a recent interview with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro: Seated on a gilded Louis XVI chair in his office at Miraflores, a sprawling, neo-Baroque palace in northwest Caracas, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro projects unflappable confidence. The country, he says in an 85-minute interview with Bloomberg Television, has broken free of “irrational, […]
Read more »Sudan Reels From Tough Reforms
June 22nd, 2021
Via African Business, a report on how – after decades of sanctions and isolation – Sudan is pressing ahead with painful reforms: Thick plumes of smoke ?ose from blockades of burning tyres in the streets of Khartoum this week as protests flared following a government decision to remove subsidies on petrol and diesel. The move, […]
Read more »The Dark Side of DRC’s Cobalt
June 19th, 2021
Via The New Yorker, an article on cobalt in the Democratic Republic of Congo: In June, 2014, a man began digging into the soft red earth in the back yard of his house, on the outskirts of Kolwezi, a city in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the man later told neighbors, he had […]
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.