Market Focus: Cambodia
July 19th, 2013
Via Global Finance Magazine, a look at Cambodia: Often overshadowed by its regional rivals Vietnam, Thailand and, most recently, Myanmar, Cambodia has been undergoing a quiet transformation. After more than a decade of 6%-plus growth—with just one hiccup during the global crisis in 2009—the Southeast Asian nation of 15 million people has begun attracting serious […]
Read more »Russia’s Gazprom to Buy Kyrgyz State Energy Firm
July 17th, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on Gazprom’s upcoming acquisition of a Kyrgyz energy firm: Russia’s looming acquisition of a key energy company in Kyrgyzstan will boost its position in the strategic country, with economic and security implications for the broader Central Asian region. Kyrgyz state energy firm Kyrgyzgaz head Turgunbek Kulmurzayev said July 17 that Russia’s […]
Read more »The Amazing, Surprising, Africa-Driven Demographic Future Of The Earth
July 17th, 2013
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a fascinating series of graphics detailing the demographic future of Earth. I cannot copy the interactive charts here but I strongly encourage you to visit the full article so you can see for yourself: Traffic moves through downtown Lagos, Nigeria. The United Nations Population Division, which tracks demographic data from […]
Read more »Tomorrow’s Latin America Won’t be Won With Yesterday’s Playbook
July 17th, 2013
Courtesy of Emerging Markets Insights, some commentary on South America: Frontier Strategy Group is witnessing a dizzying array of changes to the business landscape in Latin America. Some are highly visible shifts in the external political and economic conditions in key markets such as Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, to name a few, while others involve […]
Read more »Extreme Franchising: Bringing RadioShack to Afghanistan
July 16th, 2013
Via Businessweek, an interesting look at Radio Shack’s efforts to enter Afghanistan: The next time you stroll through downtown Kabul, you might be able to buy batteries from a RadioShack (RSH) outlet, the result of a new effort by the U.S. to shore up Afghanistan’s economy: selling American franchises to Afghan entrepreneurs. The U.S. has […]
Read more »Malawi: Working To Attract Investment
July 16th, 2013
Courtesy of Ventures Africa, a report on Malawi: Did President Joyce Banda recently win the Nobel Peace Prize? It may appear as such with her current world tour. Banda is president of the fairly under-the-radar Malawi. She is the East African country’s first female president and only the second in Africa after Liberia’s Ellen Johnson […]
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.