An Unpredictable America Looks More And More Like An Emerging Market
October 2nd, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, commentary examining how an unpredictable America looks more and more like an emerging market: Last week, as the UN General Assembly met in New York, I moderated an event with a group of well-known economists and foreign affairs experts on the effects of the US election on the future of […]
Read more »We Are All Global
October 1st, 2024
Via Emerging World, an interesting commentary on how – from your morning coffee to your smartphone to every aspect of your daily life – global connections and dizzying supply chains fuel our lives. You are global – and getting more global by the day. You are global. I am not trying to flatter (or judge) […]
Read more »The U.S. Has a Better Offer for Africa Than Debt
September 28th, 2024
Via Foreign Policy, commentary on how the U.S. can be more strategic in its outreach to Africa given that Washington can’t outcompete Beijing-backed banks: This month, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged more than $29 billion in new lending commitments at the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. Washington has once again misunderstood this as a symbol of Chinese economic strength. […]
Read more »How Africa Became The World’s Largest Market For Guinness Beer
September 24th, 2024
Alcohol brand Guinness might have its origins in Ireland, but today its biggest market is in Africa. Academic Jordanna Matlon has just released a paper studying how that came to be and, in particular, examined the role of advertising campaigns going back to late colonial times to understand how the brand was focused on shaping […]
Read more »New $90 Billion World Bank Plan to Electrify Africa Gets Underway
September 20th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on a new $90 Billion World Bank plan to electrify Africa: Mission 300 aims to bring electricity to 300 million Africans Rockefeller Foundation, GEAPP to help assess proposed projects A plan to bring electricity to 300 million Africans by 2030, backed by an initial pledge of $30 billion from the World Bank and […]
Read more »End of the Road: The World’s Poorest Countries Have experienced A Brutal Decade
September 19th, 2024
Via The Economist, a look at why development in the world’s poorest countries has ground to a halt: There are now a billion fewer people subsisting on less than $2.15 a day than in 2000. Each year since the turn of the millennium, a cast of aid workers, bureaucrats and philanthropists, who often claim credit for […]
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.