What South African Rooibos Tea Can Tell Us About Africa-China Trade Flows
February 25th, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on how the example of South Africa’s famous tea variety speaks to unfinished business in expanding African exports to China: Last month, China’s General Administration of Customs released its customs data for 2023. The data showed that China’s total trade with Africa grew a modest 1.5 percent in 2023, reaching $282.1 billion, but Africa’s […]
Read more »The CPKC Railway Line Linking Mexico, the United States and Canada
February 25th, 2024
Opened last year, a look at the CPKC railway line linking Mexico, the United States and Canada: Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) began operations, the first railway line that commercially links Mexico, the United States and Canada , with a route of more than 32,000 kilometers to through the main cities and ports of the three nations. […]
Read more »Fierce Demand is Leading Companies to Look for Tech Talent in Smaller Markets Like Bucharest and Hanoi
February 25th, 2024
Courtesy of Quartz, a look at 20 “emerging markets” where companies are searching for tech talent: Despite more than 30,000 layoffs in the tech industry so far this year, some markets are actually seeing the demand for tech talent surpass supply, leading companies around the world to search for talent in smaller, “emerging markets,” according to a new report. […]
Read more »Côte d’Ivoire’s Traders Brace for Sahel States’ Split from ECOWAS
February 25th, 2024
Via The Africa Report, a report on the impact of the Sahel states split form ECOWAS on Cote d’Ivoire: More than 1.3 million Burkinabes and half a million Malians live in the Côte d’Ivoire thanks to ECOWAS freedom of movement, many of them running small businesses. They fear for their livelihoods and their right to […]
Read more »The Gulf Region’s Growing Importance for India
February 25th, 2024
Via IISS, an article on the growing strategic convergence between India and the Gulf region whihc has resulted in deeper political, economic and defence ties” In one of his last foreign visits before India’s general election in April–May 2024, on 13–15 February India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelled to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and […]
Read more »US Bets on $2.3 Billion African Railway to Help Deliver EV Revolution
February 23rd, 2024
Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on Washington’s gamble that the Lobito corridor linking Congo, Zambia and Angola will provide the battery metals to power its green transition: Ahead of a trip to Zambia in September, Kurt House made a detour to Washington to meet US Under-Secretary of State Jose Fernandez, who subsequently wrote on X. “We […]
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.