Archive for the ‘Haiti’ Category

Trading Chickens for a Fragile State
July 15th, 2023

Via The National Interest, a look at South Africa’s poultry crisis and how trade practices promulgated in North America, Europe, and the UK have a stake in the outcome, beyond the chicken trade, not just for South Africa but many other developing nations as well: Africa is littered with the economic debris of predatory trade […]

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Once The Promise of Hope in Haiti, Textile Parks Laying Off Thousands
February 3rd, 2023

Via the Miami Herald, an article on the continuing challenges of building businesses in Haiti: The Korean textile company that for a decade anchored the United States’ largest investment in a post-earthquake Haiti is downsizing — and eliminating thousands of jobs. Sae-A Trading Co., which operates as S&H Global inside the Caracol Industrial Park in […]

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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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