Emerging Asia’s Growth Champions
June 17th, 2015
Via EMIA, an interesting article on the seven Asian economies expected to grow quickest between 2015 – 2030: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam are amongst Emerging Asia’s most-established consumer markets. Between them they accounted for 57% of consumer spending in Asia-Pacific in 2014 but by 2030 this proportion will increase to 70%. Looking ahead, consumer spending in these seven economies […]
Read more »Tajikistan: At The Center Of Central Asian Energy
June 13th, 2015
Via The World Folio, an in-depth look at Tajikistan: The commissioning of a $3.2 billion gas pipeline and hydrocarbon exploration activities put Tajikistan at the center of greenfield energy projects in the region Tajikistan is quickly transforming into a hub for international electro-energy, gas transit and transportation projects. This is largely a result to its unique […]
Read more »Somalia’s Premier Bank To Bring ATMs, Debit Cards To Mogadishu
June 13th, 2015
Via Reuters, an article on Somalia: Somalia’s Premier Bank has struck a deal with Mastercard and will issue debit cards and install ATM machines in the capital of the war-ravaged country, the Islamic lender’s top executive said on Wednesday. The east African nation has struggled for more than two decades with civil war and containing […]
Read more »The Curious Tale Of The World-Beating Somali Shilling
June 13th, 2015
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on the Somali shilling: Here’s a pecuniary peculiarity to rival Bitcoin – the world strongest currency over the past 12 months belongs to a small, war-torn African state without foreign currency reserves or any discernible monetary policy and a central bank of only three years’ standing. Yet […]
Read more »How Corruption Helped North Korea
June 13th, 2015
Via the Carnegie Endowment, an interesting look at the role that corruption may have played in helping North Korea: “Nobody stole under Stalin,” many old-timers in the former Soviet Union like to say. Many North Koreans who remember the reign of Kim Il-sung—known as “The Great Leader,” “Sun of the Nation,” and “Generalissimo”—felt the same […]
Read more »There’s An App For That … In Myanmar
June 2nd, 2015
Via The Diplomat, an interesting report on Myanmar developers who are capitalizing on a growing demand for local mobile apps: In 2004, the same year Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates, an 18-year-old in Yangon was hard at work on Myanmar’s first smartphone app. Their lives couldn’t have been more different. While […]
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.