Combating Chinese Dual-Use Infrastructure: Bringing In the Private Sector
December 23rd, 2022
Via the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), commentary on the role of the private sector in US efforts to counter China’s global infrastructure infuence: The United States has historically enjoyed immense strategic advantages in the Western Hemisphere. The mostly democratic character of the region; the deeply embedded cultural, linguistic, geographic, and historical links; […]
Read more »Tanzania Signs $2.2bln Railway Deal With China
December 23rd, 2022
Via Terra Daily, a report on Tanzania’s recent $2.2bln railway deal with China: Tanzania on Tuesday signed a $2.2-billion contract with a Chinese company to build the final section of a railway line aimed at linking the country’s main port with its neighbours. The 2,561-kilometre (1,600-mile) line will link the Indian Ocean port of Dar es […]
Read more »Cuba’s Bustling Black Markets Hold An Important Economic Lesson
December 23rd, 2022
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on Cuba’s black markets and economic condition: Black Markets have always been regarded as networks where buyers and sellers transact goods and services notorious for being morally wrong. Things like hard drugs, illegal prostitution, or guns that are not registered are among the many elements people cite when someone introduces the […]
Read more »Is India’s Adani Group Too Big To Fail?
December 18th, 2022
Via Quartz, a look at how Adani’s rise over the past few years has been meteoric. But can India afford his failure? The Indian companies belonging to Gautam Adani, the world’s third-richest man, have soared in value at breakneck pace. Some of Adani’s listed companies—such as Adani Green Energy, Adani Enterprises, and Adani Transmission—have seen their […]
Read more »Is Guyana Getting a Fair Cut of Its Oil Bonanza?
December 17th, 2022
Via Foreign Policy, commentary that Guyana’s government is set to tweak its baseline contract with fuel companies after criticism it got fleeced: Most South American economies have grown sluggishly this year. But Guyana has been an outlier—both in the region and the world at large. The small country is on track to boast the globe’s […]
Read more »Why India Can’t Replace China
December 16th, 2022
Via Foreign Affairs, commentary on some of the barriers to India’s next economic boom: With China’s status as the “workshop of the world” marred by rising political risks, slowing growth, and increasingly untenable “zero COVID” policies, no country seems more poised to benefit than India. In May, The Economist ran a cover story about India, asking whether […]
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.