Buying Baja
June 2nd, 2024
Via Hakai Magazine, a look at how – on a storied stretch of Mexico’s Baja peninsula – locals fight rich outsiders and rampant development that threaten to transform the coast and dry up aquifers: The fish are so thick we can see them from the boat, a writhing mass darkening the ocean’s surface, their oily […]
Read more »Congo Brazzaville Now A LNG Exporting Country
June 2nd, 2024
Via U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), a report on Congo Brazzaville’s LNG export industry: Data source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, International Energy Statistics database and Country Analysis Brief: Congo Brazzaville After years of either declining or stable domestic natural gas production, the Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo Brazzaville, began exporting liquefied natural gas […]
Read more »US Announces Measures To Give Cuban Small Business A Boost
June 2nd, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on new US measures designed to give Cuban small business a boost: The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced regulatory changes to allow more American financial support for Cuba’s nascent private sector and bolster access to U.S. internet-based services, modest but timely measures that officials said would help give the island’s […]
Read more »Korean Builders Bet Big on Rwanda’s Fast-Growing Economy
June 2nd, 2024
Via The Korea Herald, an article on Korean builders’ interest in Rwanda: Some liken Rwanda to the “Singapore of Africa” due to its fast-growing economy and strategic focus on fintech. South Korean builders and financial firms are also eyeing their expansion in the burgeoning market, pinning high hopes on the upcoming Korea-Africa summit talks in […]
Read more »US Tech Giants Building Dozens of Data Centers In Chile, But Locals Are Fighting Back
June 2nd, 2024
Via Rest of World, an article on the multiple Chilean groups which are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation: Over the past 12 years, 16 data centers have been approved in Santiago’s metropolitan area. Most use millions of liters of water annually […]
Read more »The End of Secondhand Clothes
June 1st, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, an article on how a major source of work for women in East Africa is suddenly under threat: At Kampala’s sprawling Owino market, Millicent Mukwezi opens up a bundle of secondhand clothes while her assistant keeps an eye on the buyers eagerly rifling through in search of bargains. Mukwezi buys the clothing […]
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.