Kigali’s Big Shift to Small Electric Motorcycles Brings More Than Just Climate Benefits
May 7th, 2024
Via IFC, a look at how Kigali’s shift to small electric motorcycles yields more than just climate benefits: In Rwanda, more than half the vehicles on roads are “moto-taxis.” Though they are the backbone of the country’s transport system, they contribute to climate change. Thanks to a fast-growing electric motorbike start-up in Kigali, e-motorbikes are […]
Read more »East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse
May 7th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, a look at East Asia’s coming population collapse and how it will reshape world politics and regional economies: In the decades immediately ahead, East Asia will experience perhaps the modern world’s most dramatic demographic shift. All of the region’s main states—China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan—are about to enter into an […]
Read more »China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway Construction to Begin in October
May 7th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, an article on the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan railway for which construction is to begin in October, a railway that Kyrgyzstan hopes will make it “a transit country for the world”: Construction of the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan (CKU) railway will begin in October, according to Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov. Speaking during a working trip to Osh on May […]
Read more »The Cable Ties to China’s Digital Silk Road
May 7th, 2024
Via the Lowy Institute, a report on the cable ties to China’s Digital Silk Road: Technological competition between the United States and China is transforming the physical connections that make up the digital world and its governance. China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” eventually incorporated digital connectivity under the rubric Digital Silk Road in an effort to leverage […]
Read more »Even With Gaza Under Siege, Some Are Imagining Its Reconstruction
May 7th, 2024
Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how international development agencies have been meeting with Middle East business interests and urban planners to map out an economic future for the territory: On a December morning in central London, more than two dozen people drawn from influential institutions across the Middle East, Europe and […]
Read more »Economy in Focus: Albania
May 7th, 2024
Via Emerging Europe, an article on Albania: Challenges there may be, but Albania’s economy is broadly in a good place. A boom in tourism is driving growth at levels above most of its regional peers. While tourism across most of the world has broadly recovered from the massive impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, in a […]
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.