Central Asian Countries Left with the Burden of Keeping Afghanistan’s Lights On
July 6th, 2022
Via the Caspian Policy Center, an article on Afghanistan’s need for electricity: Afghanistan is unable to pay its electricity bill to its northern neighbors and both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are beginning to feel the pinch. Since the Taliban seized control of the country last summer, millions of Afghans have struggled to survive. Thousands of civil servants fled […]
Read more »Africa Is Not Europe’s Gas Station
July 6th, 2022
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on how Germany and Italy are telling Africans that they should saddle themselves with fossil-fuel infrastructure that will soon become a drag on our economies and propel us toward climate disaster: Having been thrust to the front lines of a climate crisis we did not cause, Africans have long urged rich countries […]
Read more »First CPEC Hydropower Project Starts Operations
July 6th, 2022
Via Pakistan’s Technology Times, an article on how – on June 29 – the Karot hydropower project (HPP) was put into full commercial operation, a major milestone in the progress of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): While Pakistani authorities expressed jubilation and gratitude to the Chinese government for its cooperation in the completion of the […]
Read more »Green Energy’s Dirty Secret: Its Hunger for African Resources
July 4th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, an article on how the scramble for battery metals threatens to replicate one of the most destructive dynamics in global economic history: In June, the European Parliament voted to effectively outlaw the sale of new cars using gasoline or diesel by 2035. If approved by the European Union, the move would revolutionize the world’s third-largest […]
Read more »Second Coming Of The BRICS?
July 4th, 2022
Via East Asia Forum, a look at the BRICs, 13 years after their first meeting in 2009: When the inaugural BRIC summit took place in 2009, it was a moment of relative triumph for its members. While the West dealt with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, BRIC countries — Brazil, Russia, India […]
Read more »The Era of WhatsApp Banking Is With Us
July 3rd, 2022
Via Quartz Africa, commentary on how banking via WhatsApp is spreading from east Africa to far beyond: How about forgetting all the ATM cards and banking apps you have and instead transacting through WhatsApp? That practice is already making inroads in east Africa, and it could be bigger than you can imagine. This week I […]
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.