Vietnam’s Lagging North-Central Region Sees Investment Boom
January 21st, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Vietnam’s lagging North-Central region which is currently experiencing an investment boom: Momentum for investment is finally building for Vietnam’s North-Central region, with key factors from global business support to domestic political backing falling into place in an area that has lagged in development until now. Quang Tri is an […]
Read more »Zambia Plans New Railway to Spur Trade With Africa’s Great Lakes
January 21st, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on Zambia’s planned new railway: Zambia plans to build a new rail connection to link a Lake Tanganyika harbor to an existing line that runs to neighboring Tanzania, boosting trade with three other nations that share borders with the world’s longest freshwater lake. The southern African nation’s Transport and Logistics […]
Read more »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 »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 »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.