2015 Fragile States Index
June 18th, 2015
Via Foreign Policy, a look at the 2015 Fragile States index: For the second year in a row, South Sudan has been designated as the most fragile nation in the world, plagued by intensifying internal conflict that has displaced more than two million of its people. Headline-making events of the past year have spurred much […]
Read more »Emerging Asia’s Growth Champions
June 17th, 2015
Via EMIA, an interesting article on the seven Asian economies expected to grow quickest between 2015 – 2030: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam are amongst Emerging Asia’s most-established consumer markets. Between them they accounted for 57% of consumer spending in Asia-Pacific in 2014 but by 2030 this proportion will increase to 70%. Looking ahead, consumer spending in these seven economies […]
Read more »Middleweight Cities: Key To Global Growth
May 26th, 2015
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at the rise of middleweight cities in the global economy: Even Western executives who are good at geography may have a hard time picking out Surat, Foshan and Porto Alegre on a map. Yet over the next decade, each of these cities will contribute more to global […]
Read more »Equatorial Guinea: Self-Proclaimed “Singapore of Africa”
May 22nd, 2015
Via The World Folio, an interesting report on Equatorial Guinea: Buoyed by the funds from oil exports as well as the prestige of its newly discovered resources, Equatorial Guinea has begun to leverage its more prominent place on the world map to improve itself in ways that are not purely economic. Well aware that no country […]
Read more »Consider Kazakhstan: American Billionaire Jim Rogers Advises
May 10th, 2015
Via the Tengri News, an article on Jim Rogers’ recent emerging market investment interests: A famous American investor and businessman Jim Rogers said in his recent interview to CNN that he continued purchasing shares of Russian companies and advised to invest in the emerging markets like Iran, Kazakhstan, North Korea and a number of African countries. The […]
Read more »Three Reasons It’s Time For Angel Investors To Go Global
April 13th, 2015
Via RENEW Strategies, a quick commentary on the promise of frontier markets: Times are changing – Markets around the world are opening up, technology is shrinking 3,000 miles to 30 miles, and angel investing is the new “VC”. At RENEW, we think it’s time for U.S. angel investors to start going global. Here’s why: The […]
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.