MENAP Digital Economy Could Hit $700B by 2030
March 16th, 2022
Via The National, a report that the digital economy of the MENA region and Pakistan could hit $700bn by 2030: The digital economy of the Middle East, North Africa and Pakistan (Menap) is set to exceed $100 billion this year and has the potential to reach $700bn by 2030 if backed by adequate investment, according to […]
Read more »Namibia Eyes Green Hydrogen Future
March 16th, 2022
Via African Business, a report on Namibia’s green hydrogen ambitions: The Namibian government has announced that it will choose the German consortium Hyphen Hydrogen Energy as the preferred bidder for its green hydrogen project in the Tsau Khaeb National Park. The large-scale green hydrogen project is the most notable project in the government’s Southern Corridor […]
Read more »Airlift: Pakistan’s Buzziest Start Up
March 15th, 2022
Via Rest of World, a look at one of Pakistan’s “buzziest” start ups: After graduating from college in 2016, Yahya Humayun jumped headfirst into management consulting. He joined Ernst & Young in Lahore as an associate consultant. But within a year, he realized that the job wasn’t the right fit for him. Humayun wanted to […]
Read more »Forget BRICS. Welcome TICKS or MIST?
March 15th, 2022
Via CNN, a look at some of the emerging markets growing in popularity as Russia is removed from many such indices: For many years, the world’s most popular emerging markets have been the so-called BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. But given that Russia is no longer a market that Westerners can access following the invasion […]
Read more »What to Make of DRC’s Revenue Dispute With China Molybdenum
March 15th, 2022
Courtesy of STRATFOR, analysis (subscription required) of the DRC’s revenue dispute with mining giant China Molybdenum: In the Democratic Republic of Congo, an ongoing revenue dispute regarding the massive Chinese-owned Tenke Fungurume mine is part of President Felix Tshisekedi’s broader push to increase government oversight of the country’s mining industry. However, this push is more likely […]
Read more »Sudan’s First Y Combinator Start Up
March 13th, 2022
Via Quartz, a report that Sudan has its first Y Combinator startup: When the demo day for Y Combinator’s winter cohort of startups begins later this month, Bloom will put Sudan on the American accelerator’s famed map for the first time. The barely year-old company was founded by Ahmed Ismail, a Sudanese former Barclays investment bank […]
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.