Visualizing Global Gold Production in 2023
May 1st, 2024
Via Visual Capitalist, an interesting graphic of global production and the large number of frontier markets on the list: Over 3,000 tonnes of gold were produced globally in 2023. In this graphic, we list the world’s leading countries in terms of gold production. These figures come from the latest USGS publication on gold statistics (published January 2024). […]
Read more »Green New Wave: How China Adapts to Central Asia’s Renewable Energy Landscape
May 1st, 2024
Via Carnegie Endowment, commentary on how China has been investing in solar and wind energy projects in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, increasingly adapting its approach to the needs and regulations in each country: China has become a global power, but there is too little debate about how this has happened and what it means. Many argue […]
Read more »How Fast Food’s Global Takeover Was Underwritten by Development Banks
April 24th, 2024
Courtesy of TruthDig, a report on how – from South Africa to Ukraine – five industrial chicken companies that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United […]
Read more »Gulf States And Central Asian Republics
April 23rd, 2024
Via Eurasia Review, an article on growing linkages between the Gulf states and Central Asia: Trade, transit and energy topped the agenda when foreign ministers from the GCC and Central Asian republics met in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, last week for their second “strategic dialogue”, following an inaugural event in Jeddah last July. The six Gulf states […]
Read more »To Secure Kazakhstan’s Uranium, Chinese Players Were Compelled to Accommodate Local Partners
April 19th, 2024
Via Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a report on Kazakhstan’s leverage its natural uranium resources to hold the reins in its nuclear fuel–related dealings with China: China has become a global power, but there is too little debate about how this has happened and what it means. Many argue that China exports its developmental model and […]
Read more »Central Asia’s Critical Raw Materials: The Next Frontier in Global Power Rivalry?
April 7th, 2024
Via Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting, a report on the strategic position of Central Asian nations within the rare earth metals’ geopolitical landscape: Eldaniz Gusseinov of the Ibn Khaldun University’s Heydar Aliyev Center for Eurasian Studies, alongside Abakhon Sultonazarov, IWPR Central Asia Regional Director, contend that the interplay between Central Asia’s ties with 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.