Myanmar: Ground Zero For China-India Energy Competition
November 6th, 2016
Via The Eurasia Review, a look at Myanmar’s position in the growing competition between China and India over energy resources: Since the early 1990s, China’s remarkable economic growth has led to a dramatic increase in its domestic energy needs, prompting its state-owned national oil companies (NOCs) to embark upon a worldwide search for oil and […]
Read more »Ten Emerging Markets Of The Future
July 28th, 2016
Via the World Economic Forum, commentary on the top 10 emerging markets of the future: A new report from BMI Research has identified the “10 emerging markets of the future” — the countries that are set to become new drivers of economic growth over the next 10 years. BMI estimates that these countries will cumulatively […]
Read more »A Western Brewer’s Return To Myanmar
June 8th, 2016
Courtesy of the Financial Times, an interesting look at Heineken’s return to Myanmar: Sobir Djaffar looks happy as he surveys the racks of locally produced bottles of Heineken on a Myanmar supermarket shelf. The Dutch brewer has been waiting 20 years to return to the country. But he is less thrilled that the beer — along with […]
Read more »China: Trading Its “String of Pearls” For Increased Engagement With Myanmar?
April 3rd, 2016
Courtesy of Eurasia Review, a look at China’s growing strategic engagement of Myanmar: China, of late, has been pitching to increase its influence in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) through Myanmar. As an emerging maritime power in the Indo-Pacific, China is seeking a legitimate presence in the IOR. However, it faces connectivity dilemma in its […]
Read more »There’s An App For That … In Myanmar
June 2nd, 2015
Via The Diplomat, an interesting report on Myanmar developers who are capitalizing on a growing demand for local mobile apps: In 2004, the same year Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his college roommates, an 18-year-old in Yangon was hard at work on Myanmar’s first smartphone app. Their lives couldn’t have been more different. While […]
Read more »Myanmar: The Next Frontier For Offshore Oil
May 10th, 2015
Via Stasha Macro World, a report on Myanmar’s offshore oil ambitions: The government of Myanmar is further opening up to international business by signing a deal with two foreign energy companies, Statoil of Norway and ConocoPhillips of the United States, who will invest more than $300 million to explore and drill for oil and gas […]
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.