Turkish Builders Are Thriving In Africa
May 6th, 2022
Via The Economist, an article on how Turkish builders are thriving in Africa: Selim Bora has had quite a run. In March his company, Summa, won a contract to rebuild and run Guinea Bissau’s new international airport. Months earlier it had completed a 50,000-seat national stadium in Senegal, after less than 18 months of work—a sprint-like pace […]
Read more »China Completes Cabinda Port Project
May 6th, 2022
Via Clingendael, a report on a large-scale Chinese investment in Angola: China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CGGC) completed the construction of a marine passenger terminal in Cabinda Port, located in the southwest of Cabinda, an exclave and province of Angola, bordered by the Republic of the Congo and DR Congo. Cabinda Province is the main producer of Angola’s oil, and the vast majority of […]
Read more »Pakistan’s Economy Is On The Brink
May 4th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Pakistan’s increasingly fragile economy: Pakistan is in political and economic chaos. Its most populous province, Punjab, was without a government for almost a month because the governor, who was appointed by former prime minister Imran Khan, had refused to administer an oath to the newly elected chief […]
Read more »Egypt To List Army-Owned Companies On Stock Exchange
May 4th, 2022
Via Al Monitor, an article on Egypt’s plans to list army-owned companies on the stock exchange before the end of the year, after repeated delays: Egypt is planning to list army-owned companies on the stock exchange before the end of the year, as part of a plan to include the private sector in the management of state-owned assets. […]
Read more »Emerging Markets Are the Next Comeback Nations
May 4th, 2022
Via Foreign Affairs, commentary on the potential for emerging markets in the near term: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, I argued in an article for Foreign Affairs that in the 2010s, the United States had defied predictions of its imminent decline and instead risen to new heights as an economic superpower. This revival, I warned, was in its very mature […]
Read more »China Wants Its Investments in Afghanistan to Be Safer Than in Pakistan
May 3rd, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how Beijing could profit handsomely from Afghan resources and exports, but new ventures risk exposing Chinese nationals to violence: Kabul is awash with Chinese businessmen. Walk out of Kabul International Airport, and you are greeted by a big billboard advertising Chinatown, a housing and business compound in the city that […]
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.