The Red Sea Crisis Proves China Was Ahead of the Curve
January 20th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, a look at how China’s Belt and Road Initiative wasn’t a sinister plot, but rather a blueprint for what every nation needs in an age of uncertainty and disruption: Over the past two months, a sudden surge in Houthi rebel attacks in the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea to […]
Read more »Top Organizations Unlock New Investments to Support the World’s Most Vulnerable
January 19th, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on the HRI Initiative which is focused on launching three new collaborative actions that will build and mature selected frontier markets, scale action at the intersection of climate and humanitarian impact by designating eight cities as focus hubs for innovation in key sectors: Accra (agritech), Lagos (fintech), Dakar (tourism and […]
Read more »DRC, South Africa, Botswana… Who Has the Greatest Potential in Critical Minerals?
January 19th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a look at who has the greatest potential in critical minerals in Africa: Rich in minerals and strategically located, in theory the African continent has what it takes to play a key role in the ongoing energy transition, but the reality is more complex. We take a closer look in this […]
Read more »Why India Isn’t the New China
January 19th, 2024
Courtesy of Wall Street Journal, a report on why India’s – whose population surpassed China’s last year – path forward is likely to look very different from its neighbor’s: China’s economy is struggling, but another Asian giant, neighboring India, is suddenly squarely on investors’ and manufacturers’ radar. The first two decades of the 21st century were […]
Read more »Yamaha Taps School Music To Score Growth in India, Southeast Asia
January 19th, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Yamaha efforts to grow sales in emerging markets as Japan sales slide: For one New Delhi fifth grader shy of singing, a white, plastic recorder gifted by Japan’s Yamaha Corp. has been a potentially career-defining revelation. “I feel I’m better at playing the recorder and may even teach it […]
Read more »Namibia: ‘Europe of Africa’ Due To Its Road System
January 19th, 2024
Via The Brief, an article on how a delegation from Sierra Leone, on a study visit in Namibia, commended the country’s road network, even dubbing it the ‘Europe of Africa’ due to its road management system: Namibia boasts the best road infrastructure in Africa, consistently ranking first in various reports and surveys. The Sierra Leone […]
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.