Bangladesh Going Cashless
December 18th, 2021
Via WhiteBoard, an interesting look at Digital Bangladesh and its effort to make a cashless society: The story of Bangladesh is one of relentless reinvention. Bangladesh’s ambitious digitalisation vision, the Digital Bangladesh initiative, first laid out in 2008, has been a key driver of its decade-long progress. Evolving from a primarily rural agrarian economy, it […]
Read more »Bangladesh: Becoming An ASEAN+1
November 12th, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, an article on how the country’s mega projects are projecting the nation to be a major Asian ‘tiger’ economy by 2022: Bangladesh’s ability to both attract and invest capital into its infrastructure needs has massively increased during the past two-three years with global investors looking at the country as a solid […]
Read more »Iran’s Chabahar Port And Bangladesh’s West Asian Reconnection Opportunity
August 15th, 2021
Via Silk Road Briefing, a report on the potential for Chabahar to scale Bangladesh’s west Asian reconnections: For decades now India has made requests to Pakistan concerning the provision of overland transit facilities to markets in Iran and beyond, in return for the millions of dollars Islamabad would earn in transit fees. Pakistan has never agreed. […]
Read more »Bangladesh at 50
March 25th, 2021
Via Project Syndicate, a review of Bangladesh at 50, nation that has gone from being what Henry Kissinger called a “basket case” to a case study in rapid economic development, buoyed by a large microfinance sector, balanced labor regulations, and resistance to religious fundamentalism: It feels strange to have known a country since its birth. For […]
Read more »Bangladesh: Will Congested Ports Choke Its Economy?
February 14th, 2020
Courtesy of STRAFOR (subscription required), a look at how Bangladesh’s efforts to maintain the country’s explosive economic growth will require updating its overburdened trade infrastructure — opening opportunities for China, India and Japan: To maintain its status as one of Asia’s most promising emerging markets, Bangladesh is pursuing an ambitious infrastructure overhaul — and its […]
Read more »Bangladesh: Economic Growing Pains
January 30th, 2020
Via East Asia Forum, an article on Bangladesh’s economy: Bangladesh began 2019 with a renewed hope that its newly elected government would bring in political and economic changes as promised in its election manifesto. Although the economy has maintained high GDP growth, electoral promises remain unfulfilled in several critical areas. Many old woes continue to […]
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.