Indonesia: The Most Amazing Development Story On Earth?
June 30th, 2022
Via Noah Pinion, an article on Indonesia: I’ve been writing a series of posts about economic development. The last 20 years have seen a marked acceleration in the rate at which poorer countries — not just China, but many countries — are catching up to richer ones. Among the success stories I’ve profiled so far are Bangladesh, […]
Read more »Protests Place Ecuador’s Oil Production in Peril
June 30th, 2022
Via STRATFOR, a report on Ecuador’s oil production: In Ecuador, nationwide protests risk disrupting oil production, potentially impeding the country’s economic growth and ability to mitigate its growing debt burden. Ecuador’s state-owned energy company Petroecuador has suspended exports of Oriente crude, its most popular hydrocarbons export, as part of a force majeure issued on June 29. […]
Read more »After The War Ends, Can Ethiopia’s Economic ‘Miracle’ Get Back On Track?
June 26th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Ethiopia’s economy: Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed said this month that his government would negotiate with fighters in the northern Tigray region to end a war that has not only unleashed human rights abuses and killed thousands of people but has also derailed one of Africa’s most […]
Read more »The Marshall Plan and the Belt and Road Initiative: More Differences Than Similarities
June 26th, 2022
Via The Atlantic Council, a comparative analysis of the Marshall Plan and China’s BRI: China’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is often directly compared to the United States’ postwar Marshall Plan. The comparison is made due to the BRI’s scale, global infrastructure investment ambitions, and geopolitical and security ramifications. But how accurate is this […]
Read more »How China’s Belt and Road Diplomacy Could End The Ukraine Conflict For Good
June 26th, 2022
Via South China Morning Post, commentary on how Ukraine’s integration into the ambitious rail network linking China with Europe, by providing alternative routes bypassing Russia, would be acceptable to the EU and US: A post-war scenario in Ukraine that favours both Russian and Western interests is key to a sustainable ceasefire. China could be well placed to […]
Read more »North Korea’s Capitalist Pigs
June 25th, 2022
Via NK News, a look at how the private market brought pork to the table in North Korea: North Korean founding leader Kim Il Sung once famously promised that every citizen would soon be able to eat meat (that is, pork) soup daily. However, three decades of attempts to create a state-controlled system of pig farming ended in […]
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.