Can The Afghan Economy Be Saved?
February 3rd, 2012
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a look at Afghanistan’s economy and economic future. As the article notes: Whipsawed by a long-drawn U.S.-led military operation and a decade of erratic international economic assistance, Afghanistan is in shambles. With economic development always considered secondary to security concerns, little has been done in the past decade to establish a […]
Read more »TAPI Pipeline: Pakistan Proposes Uniform Transit Fee
February 3rd, 2012
Via The Express Tribune, an article on Pakistan’s recent proposal of a uniform transit fee for the import of gas under the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project: “…Pakistan has proposed Afghanistan a uniform transit fee for the import of gas under the $7.6 billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, government officials say. In […]
Read more »Iraq’s Crude Awakening
January 31st, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting look at how – in Iraq’s turbulent politics – whoever controls the oil production wields the power. And that might soon be ExxonMobil. As the article notes: “…On Dec. 17, two days after the U.S. military cased its colors and formally ended its mission in Iraq, the brain trust of […]
Read more »Thorns In China’s African Dream
January 31st, 2012
Courtesy of China Dialogue, a look at some of the challenges that Chinese companies are on the ground in Africa as they ignore local politics and stir hostilities. As the article notes: The importance of Africa to China is easily understood: it offers a huge market, rich supplies of natural resources and raw materials and […]
Read more »Myanmar: Poised On Cusp Of Growth?
January 17th, 2012
Via USA TODAY, an interesting article on Myanmar’s growth prospects. As the report notes: In saffron robes and flip-flops, Buddhist monk Ashin Uttama browses the feast of cheap Chinese electronics assembled for a trade fair in Rangoon, Burma’s commercial capital. A tablet computer would let him scroll through the sutras he must chant daily, and […]
Read more »Myanmar: Frontier Banking
January 13th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Myanmar’s nascent banking sector. As the article notes: For all the hoopla surrounding Myanmar as the new Wild West following its half-century of isolation, a truly frontier market is its banking sector – ATMs became available just two months ago. But one bank has picked up the […]
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.