Indonesia’s Economy In Turbulent Times
January 17th, 2023
Via East Asia Forum, a look at Indonesia’s economy: The year 2022 got off to a relatively optimistic start for Indonesia. To be sure, Covid had left serious scars — the Economist’s central estimate for ‘excess deaths’ through to December 2022 was about 740,000 fatalities — while the lost education and employment opportunities, especially for […]
Read more »U.S. Tech Firms Are Replacing Workers With Cheaper Talent In Latin America
January 17th, 2023
Via Rest of World, a look at how U.S. tech firms are replacing workers with cheaper talent in Latin America: For Andrea Campos, founder of the Mexico-based mental health app Yana, finding developer talent nowadays reminds her of the dating scene growing up in Cancún. “If you wanted a boyfriend, you had to accept the hard […]
Read more »Saudi Aramco Bets On Being The Last Oil Major Standing
January 17th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how – while some western energy companies prepare for a future less reliant on fossil fuels – Saudi Aramco, the world’s biggest supplier is doubling down: In Abqaiq, the biggest oil processing facility on the planet, there is no sense the world may be coming to the […]
Read more »China’s First Population Drop In Six Decades Sounds Alarm On Demographic Crisis
January 17th, 2023
As reported by Reuters, official figures show China’s population shrank by 850,000 people in 2022 — the first such decline since 1961. The tipping point comes a decade earlier than the government and the United Nations predicted. Yi Fuxian, an expert on Chinese population, said the “real demographic crisis is beyond imagination and that all […]
Read more »Will There Be More China-Arab Cooperation Under BRI?
January 17th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, a look at the future prospects of China-Arab cooperation under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative: If we are going to analyses the main questions, related to: will China and Arab states seek new future cooperation? What role does the Belt and Road Initiative play in the cooperation between the […]
Read more »China’s Latin American Power Play
January 16th, 2023
Via Foreign Affairs, an article on China’s rising influence in Latin America and ways the West can counter: China’s footprint in Latin America is large and growing. It is the region’s second-largest trade partner after the United States and the biggest sovereign lender to Latin American governments. Indeed, as a lender, China is overtaking long-standing […]
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.