A Year of Opportunity for Africa
January 13th, 2023
Via Project Syndicate, commentary on Africa’s potential to make significant progress toward a carbon-neutral economy which will require African countries to eliminate barriers to trade and innovation, address institutional decay, and build on recent diplomatic breakthroughs: The past year has been challenging for Africa. After a hopeful 2021, during which the continent-wide GDP increased by nearly 7% and […]
Read more »Why The US Is Backing The Africa Continental Free Trade Area
December 17th, 2022
Via Quartz, a look at how ore investments in Africa could see the Biden administration reduce China and the EU’s dominance in trade with Africa: The US is optimistic that if the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is implemented the right way, it could help the continent solve most of its industrial challenges and attract more foreign […]
Read more »Prosper Africa: US Investors In African Countries
December 16th, 2022
To help support US-Africa Investment, Prosper Africa launched the US-Africa Investment map, an interactive visual tool bringing together curated US corporate and financial investments across the continent: ,
Read more »Uranium-Rich Niger Struggles Despite Nuclear Resurgence
December 2nd, 2022
Via Nuclear Power Daily, an article on Niger’s mining prospects: Prospects for the world’s nuclear industry have been boosted by the war in Ukraine and mounting hostility towards climate-wrecking fossil fuels — but Niger, one of the world’s biggest sources of uranium, has yet to feel the improvement. The deeply impoverished landlocked Sahel state is […]
Read more »Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment (PGII): Moving Forward
November 11th, 2022
Courtesy of The Atlantic Council, commentary on the G7’s $600 billion response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative is here and steps that can be taken to ensure it succeeds: This summer, Group of Seven (G7) leaders followed on their 2021 promise to develop the new six hundred billion dollar Partnership for Global Infrastructure and […]
Read more »Will Sisi Take Egypt’s Economy Out of the Military’s Hands?
November 5th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on how the global crisis has magnified the fragility of Egypt’s state-driven economic model and forced it to take out new multilateral loans: When Egypt was forced to go cap-in-hand to the IMF as it struggled with a foreign currency crisis and dwindling reserves in 2016, President Abdel […]
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.