Battle for India’s Skies
June 27th, 2023
Courtesy of Afshin Molavi’s highly recommended Emerging World Week substack report, a look at India’s growing aviation sector: The battle for the Indian air traveler just got hotter. Budget carrier IndiGo — India’s largest airline — announced last week a blockbuster deal to buy 500 narrow body jets from Europe’s Airbus. The multi-billion dollar deal […]
Read more »Oil and Gas Majors Step Up Efforts To Diversify Into Lithium
June 25th, 2023
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how oil and gas corporations are moving into lithium extraction: Oil and gas majors are stepping up efforts to break into lithium to diversify beyond fossil fuels as hopes rise over a technological breakthrough to produce the metal critical for electric car batteries. ExxonMobil, Schlumberger, Occidental Petroleum […]
Read more »Women Entrepreneurs In Emerging Markets: A Trillion Dollar Opportunity
June 25th, 2023
Via World Economic Forum, a report on the immense economic potential of women entrepreneurs in emerging markets: > Globally, women could add as much as $28 trillion, or 26% of global GDP, by 2025. > In emerging markets, women-owned and led companies are systematically overlooked and under-financed. > A strong business case exists for investing […]
Read more »Africa: The Clean Energy Hub of the Future
June 20th, 2023
Via TED, an interesting talk on Africa’s clean energy potential: Africa is perhaps the continent that needs least convincing about the clean energy opportunity for health, livelihoods and economy. As the fastest-growing, yet least-electrified continent on the globe most in need of power systems that can help fortify against the onslaught of climate shocks and […]
Read more »Temasek Subsidiary May Back $150B Plan to Build 123 New Cities in Africa
June 9th, 2023
Via Bloomberg, an article on an ambitious plan to build more than 100 cities in Africa: The African Union and a unit of Temasek Holdings Pte are considering backing a plan to develop as many as 123 new cities across Africa. The plan, developed by Cape Town-based Africa123, envisages the construction of the cities over […]
Read more »Reimagining Economic Growth In Africa: Turning Diversity Into Opportunity
June 7th, 2023
Courtesy of the McKinsey Global Institute, a new report on economic growth in Africa: Africa’s economy downshifted over the last decade, yet half of its people live in countries that have thrived on the continent. Africa has the human capital and natural resources to accelerate productivity and reimagine its economic growth, which is, more than […]
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.