Mexico’s Brew Coup: The Real Reason Bud Light Sales Are Plunging
May 4th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an interesting look at Mexico’s global dominance in the beer market: After the Great Recession, the Dutch had a solid grip on the global beer market, powered by Holland hop heavyweight Heineken. But within a decade, the Netherlands — indeed all of Europe’s hoppy heartland — would be unceremoniously thrashed […]
Read more »The Geopolitics of Technology in Indonesia
May 4th, 2023
Courtesy of The Diplomat, a look at the geopolitics of technology in Indonesia, where there are signs of sharpening strategic competition in technology-intensive sectors such as battery manufacturing, clean energy, and data centers: When we think of tech in Indonesia, the first thing that usually comes to mind are homegrown unicorns like GoTo and Traveloka, […]
Read more »Rwanda: The Singapore of Africa?
May 4th, 2023
Via TechSafari, commentary on Rwanda: When you think about Rwanda, what probably comes to mind is the Genocide against the Tutsi. In one of the worst humanitarian disasters in world history, the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsis saw the rapid and brutal murder of over 800,000 people from the Tutsi ethnic groups by Hutu militias. […]
Read more »What’s in An EV Battery? Africa.
May 4th, 2023
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a detailed look at the role Africa will play in the minerals of tomorrow: The green energy resource has once again thrown Africa into the middle of a global resource race. Will the continent get its fair share this time? The rich veins of Zambia’s north-western copper belt have long […]
Read more »Iran, Syria Ink MoU to Boost Cooperation in ICT Sector
May 4th, 2023
Via Tasnim News, an article on new cooperation between Iran and Syria in the ICT sector: Iran and Syria signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to bolster cooperation in the field of communications and information technology (ICT). Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology (ICT) Issa Zarepour, who accompanies President Ebrahim Raisi in his visit […]
Read more »Romania’s Hot Economy Is Attracting Foreign Workers
May 3rd, 2023
Via The Economist, a look how Romania is changing from a country of emigrants to one of immigrants: A generation ago Romanians queued for food. Today in Bucharest the queues are back, but those standing in them are not Romanian. In one street Ukrainian refugees line up in front of an aid-distribution centre. In another […]
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.