Vietnam’s Economy to Grow Fastest in Southeast Asia Despite COVID-19: ADB
May 11th, 2020
Via ASEAN Briefing, a look at Vietnam: Vietnam is forecast to be one of the fastest-growing economies in Southeast Asia, despite the impact of COVID-19. The government launched a US$10.8 billion credit support package in March to combat the crisis. After COVID-19, the economy is expected to rebound at a […]
Read more »Promising Emerging Markets For 2020
February 16th, 2020
Via Atradius, a report on the most promising emerging market opportunities in 2020: Summary Despite ongoing trade disputes and increased geopolitical uncertainty, there remain several bright spots for export opportunities in emerging markets Brazil, Colombia, Kazakhstan, the United Arab Emirates, Senegal and Vietnam shine in 2020 as markets with strong growth prospects and limited vulnerability […]
Read more »Vietnam: SE Asia’s Next Growth Story?
November 28th, 2019
Via TechInAsia, a look at Vietnam’s potential to be the next big Asian economic success story Several batches ago, we started to see a steady influx of Vietnamese founders applying to our AppWorks Accelerator. It was a rather curious phenomenon because at the time, we had only begun expanding our scope outside of Taiwan to include […]
Read more »Rise of A Vietnamese Corporate Empire
June 29th, 2019
Courtesy of The Financial Times (subscription required), an interesting look at Vingroup, a growing Vietnamese conglomerate which makes everything from smartphones to schools: Several weeks ago, I travelled east from Hanoi, through industrial estates and rice paddies, to the port of Haiphong in northern Vietnam. My driver took me over a causeway to Cat Hai […]
Read more »Three Asian Markets Worthy of Attention: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam
August 18th, 2018
Via Investment Week, a look at Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam: The consumer boom in Asia shows no sign of slowing down. With more than half the world’s population, and home to over half of the world’s ten fastest growing major economies, Asia enjoys growth that the West can only dream of. And it is […]
Read more »Ten Emerging Markets Of The Future
July 28th, 2016
Via the World Economic Forum, commentary on the top 10 emerging markets of the future: A new report from BMI Research has identified the “10 emerging markets of the future” — the countries that are set to become new drivers of economic growth over the next 10 years. BMI estimates that these countries will cumulatively […]
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.