The Fastest Growing Economies In 2024
October 25th, 2023
Courtesy of Visual Capitalist, a graphical look at the fastest growing economies in 2024: Which countries will see the most economic growth in 2024? To answer this question, we’ve visualized GDP growth forecasts from the IMF’s October 2023 World Economic Outlook. Unsurprisingly, many of these countries are located in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa—two of the world’s […]
Read more »Green Energy in Africa Presents Significant Investment Opportunities
October 21st, 2023
Courtesy of McKinsey, a report on how green energy in Africa presents significant investment opportunities: Africa has the fastest-growing population in the world, and it is set to double by 2050 to reach more than two billion people.1 Meeting their needs with cost-efficient, sustainable energy sources will be vital to the continent’s socioeconomic development as well as […]
Read more »Mapped: Investment Risk, by Country
October 10th, 2023
Courtesy of Visual Capitalist, a visual look at countries’ investment risk: What is the risk of investing in another country? Given the rapid growth of emerging economies, and the opportunities this may present to investors, it raises the question: does investment exposure abroad come with risk, and how can that risk be analyzed? To help […]
Read more »Why False Energy Hopes Are Bad for Africa
October 5th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, commentary on how rich-world advocates are pushing outlandish green scenarios that will keep Africans poor. At the 2023 Africa Climate Summit, a coalition of 500 activist groups called for an immediate global fossil fuel phaseout and demanded a “new 100% renewable energy system” capable of meeting “all African energy needs with […]
Read more »How to Break China’s Hold on Batteries and Critical Minerals
October 5th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a commentary on how the security of clean energy is easier to manage than the security of oil; The rapid growth of electric vehicle sales finally makes real the prospect of curbing the United States’ addiction to oil, as former President George W. Bush called it, limiting climate change, and reducing […]
Read more »China’s Green Tech Giants Link Supply Chains To Southeast Asia
October 4th, 2023
Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a look at how – from Indonesia to Vietnam – ‘clean energy’ ties ASEAN more closely to Beijing despite South China Sea tensions Just a stone’s throw from a seaside resort popular with tourists, a new industrial complex is expanding on Indonesia’s Bintan island, which lies across a narrow strait from […]
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.