Myanmar Investing: Early Days Yet
April 24th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a report on Myanmar’s investment potential: Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s landslide victory in parliamentary by-elections in Myanmar has effectively fired a starting gun around the investment world. The result would give her National League for Democracy party 6 per cent of the seats in parliament should legal and […]
Read more »Laos
April 21st, 2012
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at Laos’s economic potential in light of the changes happening in the region: Long one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia, Laos has moved in recent years to capitalize on the region’s robust economic growth and increased integration by recasting itself as a “corridor country” able to […]
Read more »Myanmar: Lots To Offer, But A Long Way To Go
April 15th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, one observer’s look at Myanmar’s potential: I spent a few days in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, just before this month’s elections. It was my first visit since 1985. Back then, there were one or two flights in a day from Bangkok on small planes. One could only stay a week […]
Read more »Myanmar: An Exchange Rate That Makes Sense
April 8th, 2012
Via Time’s Global Spin blog, a look at how Myanmar’s central bank has set a new value on the national currency to reflect what it’s actually worth. But much more needs to be done to fix the country’s broken economy as the article notes: Workers count Burmese kyat currency at a bank April 5, 2012 […]
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April 5th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how Myanmar’s reform promises opportunities for overseas investors – but makes locals and neighbors alike wary: Near Yangon’s historic riverfront on Monday, the buzz at the Thein Phyu Money Changer Centre came not only from the overnight news that Aung San Suu Kyi and her opposition National […]
Read more »Obstacles To Foreign Investment In Myanmar
April 2nd, 2012
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), some analysis of potential challenges to foreign investment in Myanmar: Myanmar held parliamentary by-elections April 1, during which the country’s opposition party, led by democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, won at least 40 of 45 seats. The polls come one year after the March 2011 establishment of a nominally […]
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.