Can Africa’s First Heat Officer Make Freetown Livable?
January 17th, 2023
Courtesy of the New York Times, an interesting article on Freetown’s efforts to combat the city’s rising temperatures: Before Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown exploded into a sprawling metropolis — eating up wooded hills and encroaching on the Atlantic — Eugenia Kargbo loved it for the pristine beaches and lush forests that once enveloped the […]
Read more »Egypt’s Economic Turmoil Squeezes Struggling Middle Class
January 17th, 2023
Via Al Monitor, a report on the severe economic crisis in Egypt: With Egypt’s economy in crisis, the currency in freefall and inflation skyrocketing, the poor have been hit hard but the middle class is also teetering on the brink. “It’s like we were hit by an earthquake, suddenly you have to let go of […]
Read more »Indonesia’s Economy In Turbulent Times
January 17th, 2023
Via East Asia Forum, a look at Indonesia’s economy: The year 2022 got off to a relatively optimistic start for Indonesia. To be sure, Covid had left serious scars — the Economist’s central estimate for ‘excess deaths’ through to December 2022 was about 740,000 fatalities — while the lost education and employment opportunities, especially for […]
Read more »U.S. Tech Firms Are Replacing Workers With Cheaper Talent In Latin America
January 17th, 2023
Via Rest of World, a look at how U.S. tech firms are replacing workers with cheaper talent in Latin America: For Andrea Campos, founder of the Mexico-based mental health app Yana, finding developer talent nowadays reminds her of the dating scene growing up in Cancún. “If you wanted a boyfriend, you had to accept the hard […]
Read more »Saudi Aramco Bets On Being The Last Oil Major Standing
January 17th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how – while some western energy companies prepare for a future less reliant on fossil fuels – Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest supplier is doubling down: In Abqaiq, the biggest oil processing facility on the planet, there is no sense the world may be coming to the […]
Read more »China’s First Population Drop In Six Decades Sounds Alarm On Demographic Crisis
January 17th, 2023
As reported by Reuters, official figures show China’s population shrank by 850,000 people in 2022 — the first such decline since 1961. The tipping point comes a decade earlier than the government and the United Nations predicted. Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population, said the “real demographic crisis is beyond imagination and that all […]
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.