Growth of the Consumer Class Focused on Asia
December 12th, 2021
Via Stastista, a report on the growth of Asia’s consumer class: Between the years 2020 and 2030, almost 76 million Indonesians will join the so-called consumer class, a group of people who spend more than $11 (in 2011 PPP dollars) per day. This will cause the country to become the fourth biggest consumer market in […]
Read more »Fastest Growing Cities In Africa 2021
December 11th, 2021
Via Business Insider Africa, a report on the fastest growing cities in Africa: According to Brahima Coulibaly, director of Brookings’ Africa Growth Initiative, “About half of the world’s fastest-growing economies will be located on the continent, with 20 economies expanding at an average rate of 5% or higher over the next five years, faster than […]
Read more »Digital Silk Road: A Platform for Techno-Authoritarianism in China and Abroad?
November 28th, 2021
Via CSIS, a transcript of Congressional testimony of Jonathan E. Hillman Senior Fellow, Economics Program, and Director, Reconnecting Asia Project re: the digital Silk Road: Chairman Merkley, Chairman McGovern, and distinguished Members of the Commission, thank you for holding this important hearing and asking me to participate. This testimony draws from my book, The Digital Silk […]
Read more »Tech Majors Scramble for Africa’s Internet Market
October 13th, 2021
Via The East African, a report on tech majors’ scramble for Africa’s internet market: Africa’s internet market is up for a major scramble as global tech corporations rush to invest hundreds of billions of shillings, in the hunt for millions of Africans expected to join the online community over the next decade. Last week, global […]
Read more »Why The Marshall Islands Started A Tuna Fish Company
October 10th, 2021
Via Fast Company, an article on how one Pacific Island nation is trying to get more money from its own fish—and fish them more responsibly: In the Marshall Islands, a chain of small islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the Philippines, the economy relies heavily on the tuna industry. But foreign […]
Read more »Google Investing $1B In Africa
October 7th, 2021
Via The Hill, a report on Google’s plans to invest $1B in Africa: Google announced plans on Wednesday to invest $1 billion in Africa over the next five years in an effort to bolster internet access and to fund startups focused on the continent’s digital transformation. The search engine giant, a unit of Alphabet Inc., launched the Africa Investment […]
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.