Shortage of Electric Taxi Manufactures Slows India’s EV Revolution
October 22nd, 2024
Via Rest of World, a report on the lack of electric cars for use as taxis in India: BluSmart, India’s biggest fully electric cab company, once aimed to put 100,000 EVs on the road by 2025. As of September 2024, its fleet size is around 8,000. The demand for EV taxis far exceeds supply in […]
Read more »India and China Eye Indian Ocean’s ‘Pearl’
October 1st, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on the need for Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will have to strike a deft balance between two regional powers: The “Pearl of the Indian Ocean” – Sri Lanka – may yet become a bone of contention between India and China, following the September 21 presidential election that […]
Read more »India Invested $200m In Bahrain Last Year
September 19th, 2024
Via Zawya, a report that India is the sixth largest investor in Bahrain: INDIAN investments in Bahrain have reached $200 million from the first quarter of last year until the same period this year, reflecting a 15 per cent increase, according to a top diplomat. India is the sixth largest investor in Bahrain, said Indian […]
Read more »Beijing Urges Chinese EV Makers To Avoid Investments In Countries Like India and Turkey
September 12th, 2024
Via South China Morning Post, a report that Beijing has urged Chinese EV manufacturers to avoid investing in countries like India and Turkey Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) makers’ drive to go global hit a snag after Beijing urged them to avoid investing in countries like India and Turkey. The Ministry of Commerce convened executives from more […]
Read more »The New Influencers: The Expanding Role of Middle Powers in Africa
August 28th, 2024
Courtesy of Harvard’s Belfer Center, a new report on the expanding role of Middle Powers such as Brazil, India, Japan, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, UAE, and Qatar in Africa: This original primer, conducted as research for The Africa Futures Project, is an initial exploration into the evolving roles and increasing influence of “middle powers” in […]
Read more »Emerging Market Miracles: Few and Fleeting
August 27th, 2024
Via Emerging Markets Investor, a look at emerging markets: Much of the excitement that investors have for emerging markets is anchored in the idea that developing countries grow faster than the sclerotic rich countries of the West and that this growth brings opportunities for extraordinary portfolio returns. Unfortunately, this is largely wishful thinking, as the […]
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.