Molar City: How a Tiny Mexican Border City Built a Budget Dental Empire
August 30th, 2023
Courtesy of Bloomberg, an interesting look at medical tourism which is seeing people flock to Mexico’s Molar City for its 350 dental offices and relief from the high costs in the US and Canada: Soon after sunrise, they begin streaming across the border, most on foot. Some of the hundreds in the crowd pull rolling […]
Read more »Africa’s EV Input
August 30th, 2023
Via Semafor, a look at Africa’s global share of EV metals and minerals: The worldwide supply chain disruption caused by the global pandemic from 2020 through 2021 forced major organizations to rethink what they now realize was an overreliance on tried and tested systems. Until then African countries had not been prioritized as a supply chain […]
Read more »Demography Is Destiny in Africa
August 27th, 2023
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on how Africa’s rapid population growth is about to hit the countries whose economies and climates are least equipped to handle it: The world’s population of about 8 billion is expected to reach 10.4 billion by 2100, a growth largely driven by a phenomenon called “population momentum.” Population momentum […]
Read more »Visualizing the BRICS Expansion in 4 Charts
August 25th, 2023
Courtesy of Visual Capitalist, an interesting visual look at the BRICS expansion: Visualizing the BRICS Expansion in 4 Charts BRICS is an association of five major countries including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Distinguished by their emerging economies, the group has sought to improve diplomatic coordination, reform global financial institutions, and ultimately serve as a counterbalance to Western […]
Read more »The New Development Bank: BRICS and the New International Economic Geopolitics
August 20th, 2023
Via Modern Diplomacy, an article on the New Development Bank, BRICS, and international economic geopolitics: The decline of the old order led by North Americans and Europeans is an increasingly concrete fact. We are living in new times. There are countless examples: the loss of geopolitical, economic and ideological influence. Let us analyze the case […]
Read more »MercadoLibre’s Growing Insurance Business Paves Way Towards Regional Financial Dominance
August 13th, 2023
Via Insurtech Insights, an article on the significant convergence of e-commerce and financial services (in this case, insurance) in Latin America: Latin America’s leading e-commerce giant, MercadoLibre (MELI.O), has achieved a significant milestone by amassing five million clients in its insurance business, a senior executive confirmed. This achievement highlights the company’s relentless pursuit of becoming […]
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.