Papua New Guinea: Not Just Lighting Up China, Japan, and Taiwan Anymore
March 10th, 2017
Via Frontera News, a look at Papua New Guinea: Papua New Guinea’s mountain ranges and forest-covered hills have attracted the world’s biggest mineral and resource extraction players to tap its landscape. The minerals and energy extraction sector accounts for a good portion of export earnings of the country. 9 years ago, Exxon Mobil (XOM) built a […]
Read more »Cote d’Ivoire: Africa’s Fastest Growing Economy
March 2nd, 2017
Via WorldFolio, a report on Cote d’Ivoire: Almost six years after the end of the Second Ivorian Civil War, Côte d’Ivoire has witnessed a successful and peaceful transition to economic growth, bucking regional trends with 8.5% GDP expansion in 2016 Côte d’Ivoire can comfortably be described as booming. Its near-unstoppable economic growth – 8.5% in […]
Read more »Ethiopia To Become The Leading Economy In East Africa
February 28th, 2017
Via Coast Week, a report on Ethiopia’s economic prowess: Kenyan media outlets have it well covered recently that Ethiopia is about to overtake Kenya and become the leading economy in East Africa. Building on decade-long double-digit growth catalyzed by enormous government spending on infrastructure, the size of the Ethiopian economy, in terms of Gross Domestic […]
Read more »China And Kazakhstan’s Remote Cross-Border FTZ May Finally Be Set To Boom
February 13th, 2017
Via Forbes, an interesting look at a Chinese And Kazakh remote cross-border FTZ which may be ready to boom: The first time I visited the International Center for Boundary Cooperation “Khorgos” (ICBC) was in May of 2015. At that time, I found a bi-national free trade zone straddling the China / Kazakhstan border that was basically […]
Read more »One Belt, One Road: China Aims To Build A Global Infrastructure Network
February 12th, 2017
Via MERICS China Mapping, a very detailed look at various components of China’s One Belt One Road Initiative:
Read more »The Megacity Economy: How Seven Types of Global Cities Stack Up
February 8th, 2017
Via the Visual Capitalist, a very interesting graphic examining the megacity economy: Back in 1950, close to 30% of the global population lived in cities. That since has shifted dramatically. By 2050, a whopping 70% of people will live in urban areas – some of which will be megacities housing tens of millions of […]
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.