Investment Opportunities In Cameroon
October 29th, 2013
Via Ventures Africa, a look at Cameroon: Things have continued to improve in Cameroon since the global recession in 2009 hampered its already delicate economy. The central African country endured a near-decade recession, which started in 1987 and ended in 1994. Real GDP per capital declined by more than 40 percent from $1,115 in 1987 […]
Read more »Bringing Central Africa’s Minerals To Port
October 29th, 2013
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of how several southern African nations are competing to bring minerals produced in Africa’s landlocked regions to ports along the coastline: A freight train at South Africa’s port of Durban. Summary A competition is developing among several southern African nations to bring minerals produced in Africa’s landlocked regions to ports […]
Read more »Forget China… Switch To Zimbabwe, Mexico Or Egypt
October 27th, 2013
Via the Financial Times, an interesting article on how growth is ‘driven by knowledge – at the level of society, not the individual’: Where does growth come from? Why do some countries “emerge” and take on “developed” status, while others flounder before reaching that stage? Some once highly unlikely candidates have emerged as powerful economies. […]
Read more »Ethiopia: One Of Africa’s Best Kept Secrets
October 24th, 2013
Via Silk Invest, a look at Ethiopia: In this edition of Silk Invest’s Frontier Market Insights we take a close look at what we believe is one of Africa’s great treasures: Ethiopia. At the bottom of this article we also feature a short BBC documentary that we helped make a couple years ago. It provides […]
Read more »A New Scramble For Africa… Via Infrastructure
October 23rd, 2013
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of how improved transport links reveal a renewed economic scramble for the African interior: There is a new scramble for Africa. Roads, railways and pipelines are being built or envisioned into the interior of central Africa from multiple directions. Africa’s geographic tragedy through the ages has been […]
Read more »Snaxis Of Evil
October 12th, 2013
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an interesting look at snacks from some “black sheep” countries around the world: From Pepsi in Prague to Hershey bars in Hong Kong, American snack-makers enjoy a de facto oligopoly on global junk-food consumption. But what do snackers in U.S.-sanctioned countries eat when they get peckish? To find out, I embarked on […]
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.