Jared Kushner Wants To Turn A Wild Stretch of Albania Into A Luxury Resort
August 17th, 2024
Courtesy of The Washington Post, an article on Jared Kushner’s planned Albanian development, funded with Saudi and other Middle Eastern investment: In one of his several trips to Albania over the past few years, Jared Kushner went hiking along a stretch of Mediterranean coastline with pristine sand dunes and cliff-lined beaches. The place, he said […]
Read more »Chinese Cash Paves Way For Complicated Cambodian Development
August 17th, 2024
Via East Asia Forum, a report on Chinese investment in Cambodia: In May 2024, Cambodia acknowledged China’s significant economic and political support by renaming a major road in Phnom Penh to ‘Xi Jinping Boulevard’, highlighting Cambodia’s extensive Chinese-funded development projects such as the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway and the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. But concerns have […]
Read more »Indonesia’s Solution To Overcrowding: Carve A New Capital Out Of The Jungle
August 17th, 2024
Courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, a report on Indonesia’s new capital: Indonesia is carving a new capital city — called Nusantara — out of the tropical rainforest to escape the urban issues of Jakarta, including extreme traffic, pollution and flooding. Like many of the world’s megacities, Jakarta has mega-problems. Two-hour commutes are a way of life. […]
Read more »Capital Markets of the Silk Road: Uzbekistan
August 17th, 2024
Via The Opus, a report on I recently visited Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as part of the research trips I am conducting for my Imperium work. The Uzbek portion of the trip was organized by a local fund that manages a domestic public equities fund which was set up in 2021 on the back of the reforms Uzbekistan’s president […]
Read more »South Korea’s Railway Ambitions in Central Asia
August 17th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on a recent agreement between South Korea and Tajikistan to start a feasibility study for a rail route that would connect Tajikistan via Afghanistan to routes both east and west: Earlier this month South Korea and Tajikistan signed an agreement to start a feasibility study for the Jaloliddini Balkhi-Jayhun-Nizhny Panj Railway project. […]
Read more »Tanzania To Get New $5 Billion Capital City
August 16th, 2024
Via Newsweek, an article on Tanzania’s planned new capital city: The Government of Tanzania has launched the construction of a new capital city, with a price tag of $5 billion. The city, named Magufuli, would be a new administrative capital for the East African country, located 17 kilometers from the current capital, Dodoma. It would […]
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.