Brazil and Colombia: The Emerging Powers of Offshore Wind?
August 28th, 2024
Via Dialogue Earth, an article on wind energy development in South America: The development of offshore wind energy is entering a defining moment in Latin America, following years of expectation that have raised hopes for the energy source, but which have yet to result in a single turbine operating off the region’s coast. This August, Brazil’s senate plans to vote on […]
Read more »Colombia’s Coming Vanilla Boom
August 17th, 2024
Via The Economist, a report on Colombia’s upcoming vanilla boom: Vanilla is “a product of time and patience”, says Cristian Garcia Murillo. In 2016 his father trained vines around cacao trees on their farm in El Valle, a town on Colombia’s Pacific coast. Last year Mr Murillo sold 50kg of cured pods, partly supplied by local […]
Read more »Latin America: World’s Trade Pipsqueak
June 16th, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at why Latin America’s international trade trails most emerging markets: Follow a lorry laden with Brazilian-made cars as it inches down the hairpin bends of the Paso Internacional Los Libertadores (pictured) into Chile and the challenges of trade within Latin America become clear. Four times the lorry grinds to a halt as […]
Read more »Colombia: A Petrostate In The Making
May 28th, 2024
Via Energy Transition, commentary on Colombia’s export dependence on fossil fuels: Colombia is not the first country that comes to mind when we talk about oil and gas. But over the past decades, Colombia has seen rapid growth in coal and oil exports. The total value of its coal and oil exports in 2022 were $12.9 […]
Read more »Juan Valdez: Colombia’s Global Success Story
April 25th, 2024
Via Latinometrics, a look at the striking global success of Colombian coffee: In 1927, the National Federation of Colombian Coffee Growers (NFCGC) was established to promote the production and exportation of Colombian coffee. The timing was unfortunate, to say the least: two years later, the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange sent prices spiraling for worldwide […]
Read more »Top 5 Emerging Market Import / Export Centers in 2024
January 24th, 2024
Via The Business Year, an article on which emerging market countries are essential nodes in global trade in 2024? One way of looking at international trade is to see it as the cumulative exchange of goods and services across borders over time. Every component used in a finished product has been through the import/export process several times […]
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.