Africa Infrastructure Funder Sees $3 Billion of Projects in 2025
December 10th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, a report on Africa Finance Corporations’s plans to invest more than $3B in projects across the continent in 2025: AFC looks for agricultural, electrification initiatives CEO sees projects linked to Africa trade area as opportunities Africa Finance Corp. plans to invest more than $3 billion in projects across the continent next year to boost […]
Read more »A Trumpian Policy for Africa
December 6th, 2024
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on shat the continent stands to gain from a transactional White House: When he returns to the White House, Donald Trump, the U.S. president-elect, will take over an Africa policy riddled with contradictions. Since 2022, President Joe Biden has sought to improve ties between the United States and sub-Saharan African […]
Read more »Map Reveals How World’s Population Will Change by 2100
December 2nd, 2024
Via Newsweek, a look at how the world’s population will change by 2100: The Census Bureau has revealed how the global population will change between now and 2100, with some nations losing hundreds of thousands of people and others seeing large population growth. By 2100, the Census Bureau has predicted that the largest age group […]
Read more »Emerging Markets: Holding Reins of Future Growth and Future of Multilateralism
November 22nd, 2024
Via the IMF, commentary on how emerging markets hold both the reins of future growth and the keys to the future of multilateralism: As advanced economies turn increasingly inward, emerging markets have an important stake in the defense against global economic fragmentation. Having grown in both size and global economic stature—on the back of greater […]
Read more »A New Corporate Playbook for Navigating Political Uncertainty in Latin America
November 21st, 2024
Via Harvard Business Review, commentary on how companies operating in Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a dynamic and increasingly complex political landscape: In October 2023, First Quantum, operator of one of the world’s largest open-pit copper mines, suffered a major setback as it tried to negotiate a new contract with the government of […]
Read more »Grab Built Its Own Map in Southeast Asia, and Is Now Going After Google
November 19th, 2024
Via Rest of World, a look at how Grab – the Asian super app – uses its own drivers and cameras to create hyperlocal maps in eight countries: Grab began mapping locations because Google Maps and Here were inadequate for its drivers’ needs. It has trained drivers to use its own cameras to map streets […]
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.