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Challenges & Opportunities Facing Emerging Markets in the Middle East & North Africa
January 10th, 2008

In a recent article published by Knowledge@Wharton, Howard Pack (a professor of business and public policy at Wharton) and Marcus Noland (a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics) examined how Arab countries are coping with globalization & exploiting the recent influx of hydrocarbon-based money into their economies. We found the following notes […]

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Ecopetrol: Out of the Chavez “Shadow”
August 29th, 2007

The WSJ’s Annelena Lobb took an interesting look at the public market debut of Colombian state-run energy giant Ecopetrol earlier this week. According to the article, “….Ecopetrol is selling just over a 10% stake in itself over the course of the offering. The initial round is for certain local investors, and lasts until Sept. 25. […]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.

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