Africa: Miscommunciation With China
September 1st, 2011
Courtesy of Africa-Asia Confidential, a reporton how Chinese communications projects are encountering legal problems from East Africa down to southern Africa: Uganda may miss the East African Community’s deadline of December 2012 for all member states to switch from analogue to digital television. In early August, Uganda’s communications regulator sounded the alarm, saying that the […]
Read more »Mongolia: Between A Rock And A Hard Place?
August 21st, 2011
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting article on Mongolia’s efforts to find a third party to balance its two powerful neighbors, China and Russia reliance. As the report notes: “U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will visit Mongolia on Aug. 21-23. Aside from this, a series of high-level meetings between officials from the two countries’ […]
Read more »Myths And Realities Of The African Middle Class
August 17th, 2011
Via Emerging Markets Insight, a report on the myths and realities of Africa’s middle class: In March 2007, long-serving Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos formally opened a perfect metaphor for Africa’s changing consumer market profile. Located in the Talatona suburb of the country’s malarial and overcrowded capital city Luanda – perhaps best known for […]
Read more »The Rise Of The Multilatinas
August 17th, 2011
Via The Financial Times, an interesting look at the rapid international expansion of companies from South America: Since 2000, the global economy has undergone a huge rebalancing towards the emerging countries. Trade and financial flows shifted in the direction of the emerging countries. Not only did investors in developed countries rush to raise their stakes […]
Read more »Asian Economic Outlook: August 2011
August 17th, 2011
Via Emerging Markets Insights, a monthly review of Asia’s economic outlook for the month: Regulatory changes in several countries are impacting the investment environment. In China, new policies may give foreign companies greater access to a US$1 trillion market. In Indonesia and Malaysia, regulatory changes will improve the business environment across several sectors. In Thailand, […]
Read more »Pakistan: Big Market, Bigger Risk
August 15th, 2011
Via Forbes, an interesting article on the potential of Pakistan’s nascent online economy: “…In the game of can-you-top-this entrepreneurial hardship–who slept the least, whose office was tiniest, who choked down the most Ramen noodles–Monis Rahman holds some formidable trump cards. Four years ago Rahman, a serial entrepreneur, launched Rozee.pk, now Pakistan’s largest jobs website, with […]
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.