Shanghai, Mumbai, Dubai or Goodbye
December 26th, 2024
Via Emerging World, commentary on how a visit to Jebel Ali port in Dubai is like looking under the hood of globalization: “Do you own a glass building?” “Well, no, unfortunately I do not,” I told the bright-faced and enthusiastic Chinese woman whom I had just met a few minutes earlier. “Mabel” – her Westernized […]
Read more »Ethiopia’s Plan for the Red Sea: A Looming Threat to Regional Stability
December 26th, 2024
Via Modern Diplomacy, a report on Ethiopia’s Red Sea strategy which is becoming an increasing threat to the countries of the Red Sea coast: The Ethiopian strategy in the Red Sea is an increasing threat to the countries of the Red Sea coast. Ethiopia has pursued its long-term goals by creating a geopolitical environment that often harms […]
Read more »UAE Becomes Africa’s Biggest Investor
December 25th, 2024
Via The Guardian, a report on the UAE’s growing economic influence in Africa: The United Arab Emirates has become the largest backer of new business projects in Africa, raising hopes of a rush of much-needed money for green energy, but also concerns that the investments could compromise the rights of workers and environmental protections. Between 2019 and […]
Read more »South Sudan’s Economic Crisis Threatens Its Fragile Peace
December 24th, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on what happens when a petrostate’s lifeline disappears overnight: SOUTH SUDAN could have been off to a good start. Thanks to its oil riches, the world’s youngest country qualified as a middle-income one when it got independence from Sudan in 2011. The new country also had minerals, livestock and timber for […]
Read more »Conflict Is Remaking the Middle East’s Economic Order
December 22nd, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at how conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order where Iran is boxed in as Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey look to capitalize: THE LIQUIDITY crunch could not have come at a worse time. Usually, most of Hizbullah’s budget arrives on a plane in Damascus, the Syrian capital, with […]
Read more »How a Burgeoning Industry in Kazakhstan Is Trying to Kickstart ‘Climate-Smart Beef’
December 22nd, 2024
Via Inside Climate News, a look at how the central Asian country is working to scale up its livestock industry without adding to global emissions. Experts are skeptical. In 2010, several herds of cows airlifted from North Dakota to Kazakhstan helped spark a burgeoning cattle industry in the former USSR republic. The effort was part […]
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.