Ecuador’s Distant Dream of a Green Recovery
August 14th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Ecuador’s struggle to meet its climate goals under IMF austerity: Standing halfway up a hillside in the city’s outskirts, environmental engineer Andres Viteri Leroux peered down to a horizontal dirt shelf some 100 feet below. It was early December 2021, and he was visiting Ambato’s landfill. The dirt had been […]
Read more »Uganda Supports Somalia’s Bid To Join the EAC
August 14th, 2022
Via The Ugandan Monitor, a report on Ugandan President Museveni pledge to support Somalia in its bid to join the East African Community (EAC) : President Museveni has pledged to support Somalia in its bid to join the East African Community (EAC) and exploit trade opportunities that exist in the region. Mr Museveni said Somalia […]
Read more »How America Can Foster An African Economic Boom
August 13th, 2022
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on how America can help foster an African economic boom: In U.S. policy circles, Africa is generally viewed as a backwater, peripheral to U.S. economic and security priorities. That status is reflected in U.S. diplomacy. The last visit by a U.S. president to an African country was then President Barack Obama’s […]
Read more »North Korean Efforts To Acquire Foreign Currency
August 13th, 2022
Via The Diplomat, a look at the North Korean government’s persistent efforts to acquire foreign currency which reflects the severity of the economic crisis the country is facing: In recent years, the North Korean government has intensified efforts to collect foreign currency held by its citizens. This situation not only reflects North Korea’s lack of foreign […]
Read more »Ivory Coast Wants A Bigger Bite Of The Cocoa Business
August 13th, 2022
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on a new generation of Ivory Coast chocolatiers who are striving to change an industry that has long left cocoa farmers in poverty: The worker carefully peeled the husks from the cocoa beans to keep them from breaking, then tipped them into a metal tray that a colleague […]
Read more »Turkish Companies To Help Rescue LNG Project In Arctic Russia
August 13th, 2022
Via Radio Canada International, a report on a Turkish company’s plan to help rescue a LNG project in Arctic Russia: Big western companies are pulling out of Novatek’s grand Arctic LNG 2 project. Turkish companies, among them Karpowership, appear ready to take their place. The unprecedented Arctic industrialization that over the past years has unfolded along […]
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.