Archive for June, 2023

Women Entrepreneurs In Emerging Markets: A Trillion Dollar Opportunity

Via World Economic Forum, a report on the immense economic potential of women entrepreneurs in emerging markets: > Globally, women could add as much as $28 trillion, or 26% of global GDP, by 2025. > In emerging markets, women-owned and led companies are systematically overlooked and under-financed. > A strong business case exists for investing […]

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The Man Who Wants To Build Morocco’s First Armored Vehicle

Courtesy of The Africa Report, a report on an Moroccan entrepreneur, Youssef Mandour, chairman and founder of the FAR Group: Youssef Mandour, a Casablanca-born US Army veteran, is the chairman and founder of the international holding FAR Group, based in the US. He wants to produce the first 100% Moroccan armoured vehicle. Until a few […]

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How Miners Hunt For Rare Gems In Afghanistan By Dodging The Taliban

Courtesy of Insider News, a video report on how miners in Afghanistan use dangerous methods to hunt for jewels many of them couldn’t afford to buy. Most gems leave the country illegally and Afghan citizens say they’re losing out.

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Tehran and Kabul Reach Major Trade Agreements

Via Geopolitics in South Asia and MENA, a report on new trade agreements between Iran and Afghanistan: During the visit of the head of the Iranian Trade Promotion Organization (TPO)’s Afghan desk to Afghanistan, important agreements were made for the development of trade relations between the two countries, the TPO portal reported. Hamidreza Karbalaie Esmaili’s […]

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Mexico and Brazil: What Lies Ahead for Latin America’s Largest Economies

Courtesy of RANE’s Strator Worldview, analysis of Mexico and Brazil’s economic prospects: While Brazil and Mexico have proven financially resilient in the face of tighter global financial conditions, insufficient structural reforms in both countries and global economic fragmentation will stymy their economic growth in the coming years. However, compared with Brazil, Mexico is poised to […]

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Iran Announced New Gas Project While Turkey Is Still Thinking

Via New Eastern Outlook, a report on Tehran’s efforts to create a gas hub in the industrial district of Asaluyeh in Bushehr Province on the Persian Gulf coast with the participation of Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan and Qatar while Turkey still considers its strategy: Following the undermining of Russian gas pipelines Nord Stream 1 and 2 […]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.