Frontier Markets In Focus: 2016 And Beyond
January 13th, 2016
Via Mark Mobius’ blog, an interesting look at some investment opportunities in frontier markets (the less-developed subset of the emerging market universe) with an eye on a few countries that could best weather the investment climate ahead: When talking about frontier markets, the first question many people have is how to classify them. One of the […]
Read more »Myanmar, Bangladesh And India: Prospects For Energy Co-operation
July 29th, 2013
Courtesy of Future Directions, an interesting look at the potential for Myanmar, Bangladesh, and India to cooperate on energy issues: Key Points The Myanmar-Bangladesh-India (MBI) gas pipeline has received renewed attention recently after reports that India and Myanmar/Burma are reconsidering the project in a form that bypasses Bangladesh. Geopolitical issues, particularly Bangladesh’s relationship with India, […]
Read more »Opening A New Frontier In Bangladesh
January 31st, 2013
Courtesy of Finance Asia, an article on Bangladesh: Bangladesh usually attracts attention for the wrong reasons. Too often the country appears in news headlines for its natural or man-made disasters, or else it is dismissed as a source of employment for NGOs or cheap labour for the garment industry. Yet, as long ago as 2005, […]
Read more »China’s “String Of Pearls” Strategy: Secure The Ports Of South Asia
January 15th, 2013
Via WorldCrunch, a look on China’s “String of Pearls” strategy to secure the ports of south Asia: In the port of Chittagong, containers pile up like colorful cubes of sugar. Dozens of ships scurry down the estuary of the Karnaphuli, the river that winds around the economic capital of Bangladeshto finally stream down into the […]
Read more »Bangladesh Could Be ‘Next China’
November 13th, 2012
Via The Daily Star, an interesting article comparing Bangladesh to China: From left, Ahsan H Mansur, executive director of Policy Research Institute; Zahid Hussain, a senior economist of World Bank in Bangladesh; AMA Muhith, finance minister; Ellen Goldstein, WB country director; Debapriya Bhattacharya, distinguished fellow of the Centre for Policy Dialogue, and Salman Zaidi, WB […]
Read more »Bangladesh: The Next Investment Hot Spot?
September 8th, 2012
Via The Daily Star, a look at Bangladesh’s investment potential: Bangladesh gradually becomes a preferred destination for Southeast Asian investors due to its cost competitiveness and a suitable geographical location, said a Singaporean minister yesterday. “The world was defeated by the growth of China for more than half a decade. But the world today has […]
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.