Can Africa Avoid Another False Dawn and Finally Seize Its Potential?
July 13th, 2023
Via the McKinsey Global Institute, an interesting interview with a leading African development economist on Africa’s future: In this episode of the McKinsey Global Institute’s Forward Thinking podcast, cohost Janet Bush talks with Carlos Lopes. He is a professor in the Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town. He’s also an affiliate professor at […]
Read more »Africa: A Growing Investment Destination
July 12th, 2023
An interesting graphic via the CIA Factbook and African Wealth Summit, reminding us that – with a market value of $4 trillion and being one of the fastest-growing regions globally – Africa demands our attention, especially as the population continues to increase, making it a demographic powerhouse that cannot be ignored.
Read more »A New Energy Pact for Africa
July 12th, 2023
Courtesy of Project Syndicate, commentary on Africa’s energy future: Many people associate technologies like solar and wind power with efforts to tackle climate change. But for the world’s most vulnerable populations, they are much more than a clean-energy solution. By creating jobs, improving health, and increasing social mobility and gender equality, they build a path […]
Read more »Africa: ‘Solar Is the Oil of 21st Century’
July 6th, 2023
Via the East African, a look at the importance of solar energy in Africa but the fact that investment in the sector is still negligible as – last year – even though $250 billion globally was invested in solar, only two percent of it came to Africa: Solar is the “oil of the 21st century,” […]
Read more »Emerging Markets: Need Imagination In Changing Global Order
July 4th, 2023
Via New African Magazine, commentary on how emerging markets across Africa and beyond should take advantage of the precedents being set by geopolitical wildcards – notably, Saudi Arabia – by challenging existing paradigms that shape the global political economy not just in government affairs as well as to the private sector, as it’s no longer […]
Read more »Why Asia Is Winning The Race For Global Growth
July 1st, 2023
Via abrdn, transcript of an interview with Robert Gilhooly, Senior Emerging Markets Economist at abrdn, about the drivers of global growth out to 2050. They discuss demographics, and why it is not always destiny, migration, urbanisation, the risks of the middle-income trap, and Asia’s growing share of the global economic pie. TRANSCRIPT Paul Diggle Hello […]
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.