Dominican Republic Creates State Miner To Explore For Rare Earths
August 25th, 2024
Via Reuters, a report on the Dominican Republic’s plans to develop its mining industry: The Dominican Republic on Tuesday said it will create a state mining firm to explore and exploit the nation’s key mining resources, including rare earth minerals. The Dominican presidency said in a statement that the state firm, Empresa Minera Dominicana S.A., […]
Read more »Record Flow of Investment Into Dominican Republic
July 9th, 2024
Courtesy of Latinometrics, an illustrated look at the investment record of the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic (DR) is the third smallest country in Latin America in terms of land mass, with just roughly 11M inhabitants. In fact, you could fit 175 DRs into Brazil’s land mass. The country has a relatively diversified export economy worth $13B in 2023, […]
Read more »The Simple Idea Behind LatAm’s Star Economy: Dominican Republic
March 24th, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on the simple idea behind LatAm’s star economy – Dominican Republic: Tourists love its white sandy beaches and turquoise seas but investors like the Dominican Republic for a different reason. The Caribbean nation of 11.4mn has been an unexpected growth star, bucking Latin America’s generally miserable performance to […]
Read more »Catching Rays: Latin America Purchasing Billons of Dollars of Chinese Solar Panels
January 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of Latinometrics, a look at Latin American’s significant investment in Chinese solar panels: In the last six years, Latin America has imported $26B — or almost twice the GDP of Nicaragua — worth of solar panels from China, the world’s leader in producing and selling them.
Read more »China’s Rapidly Growing Presence in Central America
August 26th, 2023
Via The Diplomat, a look at how – in the past six years – China’s presence in the region has exploded, with worrying consequences for Central America’s governance norms: Credit: Depositphotos On August 21, Parlacen, the parliament of the six-nation Central American Integration System, voted to revoke Taiwan’s permanent observer status and admit China as an […]
Read more »3 Lessons on Sustainable Growth from the Dominican Republic
January 24th, 2023
Via the World Economic Forum, an interesting report on the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic has recorded one of the world’s strongest recoveries from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Caribbean island nation quickly achieved high rates of daily vaccine administrations, paving the way to reopening the economy. The pandemic has yielded three lessons that can serve […]
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.