Rich Lode of EV Metals Could Boost Taliban and its New Chinese Partners
July 20th, 2023
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on how the Pentagon dubbed Afghanistan ‘the Saudi Arabia of lithium’ but, now, it is American rivals that are angling to exploit those coveted reserves: Sayed Wali Sajid spent years fighting American soldiers in the barren hills and fertile fields of the Pech River Valley, one of the […]
Read more »UAE Signs Deal to Develop Mines in Eastern DR Congo
July 20th, 2023
DR Congo’s state-owned mining company Sakima has signed a $1.9 billion deal with the United Arab Emirates to develop at least four industrial mines in the provinces of South Kivu and Maniema in eastern DRC, the presidency announced Monday. Sakima has mining concessions for tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold. Last December, the DRC signed a […]
Read more »Costa Rica Again Tops List of FDI Overachievers
July 20th, 2023
Courtesy of fdi Intelligence, a look at list of FDI overachievers: Costa Rica, North Macedonia and the UAE were the world’s best foreign direct investment (FDI) performers relative to the size of their economies in 2022. In the eighth edition of fDi Intelligence’s Greenfield FDI Performance Index, Costa Rica retained its position as the country that attracts […]
Read more »After Years of Cynicism, Foreign Investors Now Favoring India over China
July 20th, 2023
Via Forbes India, a report on how the tide of foreign investments has turned as investors pull out of China stocks and turn to India and global emerging market ETFs, excluding China, for better long-term returns: Many domestic investment managers have traditionally—for nearly three deacdes—faced unfounded scepticism as foreign investors fancied China over India for […]
Read more »AI’s Potential Impact On The Philippines’ Business Process Outsourcing Industry
July 20th, 2023
Via Rest of World, a look at how AI may impact the Philippines’ call center industry, which makes up 7.5% of the country’s economy: The Philippines is a global giant in outsourced office work. Its roughly 1.6 million workers are on the front lines for replacement by generative AI. The country’s parliament and industry are […]
Read more »Uganda: Cool Beans
July 19th, 2023
Courtesy of Gates Notes, an interesting look at a Ugandan plant breeder making beans even more nutritious and easier to grow: What’s your favorite way to eat beans? Mine is in chili. I know that’s a controversial opinion in some parts of the United States, but in my family, we grew up eating bean chili. It was […]
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.