African Countries Are in a Race to Recover the Chinese Tourist Market
July 4th, 2023
Courtesy of Semafor, a look at how various African nations are targeting Chinese visitors to reinvigorate their tourism markets: Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa are leading a charge by African countries to reinvigorate their post-pandemic tourism markets by targeting the Chinese travel market. The three countries, along with Egypt, were among the first popular destinations […]
Read more »The Scramble for African Aviation
July 4th, 2023
Via The Business Year, an interesting look at the scramble for African aviation, a race that often seems to be between Emirates and Turkish Airlines: How did Turkish Airlines become the major player in African aviation in under 20 years? Turkish Airlines is currently operating some 40 routes between Istanbul and destinations across Africa, with […]
Read more »Ethiopia Launches Tender for New Telecoms Licence
July 3rd, 2023
Courtesy of Reuters, a report on Ethiopia’s recent announcement to launch a new tender for a telecommunications license: Ethiopia has launched a tender for a second new telecommunications license, its communications authority said on Friday, opening up one of Africa’s largest markets to further competition. Ethiopia’s telecoms industry is considered a big prize in Prime […]
Read more »Why Asia Is Winning The Race For Global Growth
July 1st, 2023
Via abrdn, transcript of an interview with Robert Gilhooly, Senior Emerging Markets Economist at abrdn, about the drivers of global growth out to 2050. They discuss demographics, and why it is not always destiny, migration, urbanisation, the risks of the middle-income trap, and Asia’s growing share of the global economic pie. TRANSCRIPT Paul Diggle Hello […]
Read more »Mongolia In The Middle: China and Russia May Split Over the Allure of Renewables
June 30th, 2023
Via The Interpreter, commentary on how Mongolia – with an abundance of solar and wind power – is set to impact Sino-Russian relations: Mongolia, sandwiched as it is between China and Russia, the world’s two most powerful authoritarian states, is unlucky. Its rich solar and wind potential may prove to be a curse, not a […]
Read more »Ethiopia Applied To The BRICS
June 30th, 2023
Via Al Jazeera, a report that Ethiopia has applied to join the BRICS bloc of emerging economies: Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, has asked to join the BRICS bloc of emerging markets, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The term BRIC was coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill in 2001 to describe the […]
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.