The New Influencers: The Expanding Role of Middle Powers in Africa
August 28th, 2024
Courtesy of Harvard’s Belfer Center, a new report on the expanding role of Middle Powers such as Brazil, India, Japan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, and Qatar in Africa: This original primer, conducted as research for The Africa Futures Project, is an initial exploration into the evolving roles and increasing influence of “middle powers” in […]
Read more »Chinese Firm Signs MoU To Build Modern Oil Refinery In South Sudan
August 28th, 2024
Via Xinhua, news of an agreement between Chinese firm Shengli Oilfield Keer Engineering and Construction Company (SOKEC) and South Sudan’s state-owned Nile Petroleum Corporation (NILEPET) to construct modern oil refinery and storage facilities in South Sudan: Chinese firm Shengli Oilfield Keer Engineering and Construction Company (SOKEC) on Friday signed an agreement with South Sudan’s state-owned […]
Read more »Now Applying: North Koreans
August 28th, 2024
Via Forbes, a report on how – with the arrival of AI – companies are being overwhelmed with job applications from North Korea: Last year, employees at Cinder, a tech startup that provides content moderation software and is led by former intelligence officials, began to notice strange anomalies in the thousands of job applications it […]
Read more »Brazil and Colombia: The Emerging Powers of Offshore Wind?
August 28th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, an article on wind energy development in South America: The development of offshore wind energy is entering a defining moment in Latin America, following years of expectation that have raised hopes for the energy source, but which have yet to result in a single turbine operating off the region’s coast. This August, Brazil’s senate plans to vote on […]
Read more »Emerging Market Miracles: Few and Fleeting
August 27th, 2024
Via Emerging Markets Investor, a look at emerging markets: Much of the excitement that investors have for emerging markets is anchored in the idea that developing countries grow faster than the sclerotic rich countries of the West and that this growth brings opportunities for extraordinary portfolio returns. Unfortunately, this is largely wishful thinking, as the […]
Read more »Granular Look at Vietnam’s Development
August 27th, 2024
Via McKinsey, a granular look at Vietnam’s development journey A country level perspective of Vietnam can provide a good, general overview of what is taking place in the country—just imagine what a pixelated breakdown 230 times more granular could reveal. Such a granular deep dive is now available with a new dataset, Pixels of Progress, compiled by […]
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.