Bolivia’s Lithium: All Potential, No Action
December 19th, 2021
Courtesy of The Economist, an article on Bolivia’s lithium potential: The salar de uyuni a salt flat in southern Bolivia, is so vast and so white you can see it from the moon. It spans 10,000 km {+2} (4,000 square miles), roughly the area of Kosovo. The top layer consists of salt hexagons, thick enough […]
Read more »Bangladesh Going Cashless
December 18th, 2021
Via WhiteBoard, an interesting look at Digital Bangladesh and its effort to make a cashless society: The story of Bangladesh is one of relentless reinvention. Bangladesh’s ambitious digitalisation vision, the Digital Bangladesh initiative, first laid out in 2008, has been a key driver of its decade-long progress. Evolving from a primarily rural agrarian economy, it […]
Read more »UAE: Where ‘Silicon Valley and Wall Street Talk About Emerging Economies’
December 18th, 2021
Via The National, an article on the UAE and its role in connecting companies and investors with emerging economies: “Silicon Valley and Wall Street, talking about emerging economies”. That is how the International Finance Corporation’s Managing Director Makhtar Diop sees the UAE. Mr Diop is visiting the UAE this week to explore the opportunities in […]
Read more »Private Sector Crucial To Egypt’s Recovery
December 18th, 2021
Via African Business, an article on the role of the private sector in Egypt’s economy: After managing to sustain economic growth even at the height of the pandemic, Egyptian GDP looks set to continue increasing over the next three years. Big government projects have underpinned recent growth and although Cairo has promised a change of […]
Read more »Can Namibia Deliver The World’s Green Hydrogen?
December 18th, 2021
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, a look at whether Namibia, the southern African nation rich in wind and sun, can develop a hydrogen industry from renewable sources to meet growing global demand: This old diamond-mining town, perched on the rocky Atlantic coastline of this sparsely populated desert nation, last boomed at the start of the […]
Read more »Heroin and Human Trafficking: Only Sectors of Afghan Economy Thriving
December 15th, 2021
Via The Conversation, an article on how heroin and human trafficking are the only two sectors of the Afghan economy still thriving: In the frontier town of Zaranj on Afghanistan’s border with Iran, young men jostle one another as they cram into pickups that leave at regular intervals to be smuggled across the border. Human trafficking is […]
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.