Fighting Poverty With Five Star Hotels
January 3rd, 2013
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting look at how the World Bank’s investment arm hands out billions in loans to wealthy tycoons and giant multinationals in some of the world’s poorest places: Accra is a city of choking red dust where almost no rain falls for three months at a time and clothes hung out on […]
Read more »Africa: The Next 20 Years
January 3rd, 2013
Via Eurasia Review, an interesting forecast of what Africa may expect in the next 20 years: Given the political and economic patterns set over the last 60 years, what can Africa expect over the next 20 years? If not more of the same, what needs to be changed? Sixty years ago, emboldened by such figures […]
Read more »The Next 11: Pakistan, 10 Others To ‘Surpass EU By 2030’
December 12th, 2012
Courtesy of the Asia News Network, an article on an interesting report on the Next Eleven: The “Next Eleven” countries, which include Pakistan, will collectively overtake EU-27 in global power by 2030, according to a US government report released yesterday. Although America’s influence will be reduced, it will remain the “first among equals”, adds the […]
Read more »Myanmar: An Untapped New Frontier
December 8th, 2012
Via Mizzima, a look at Myanmar: Leading American think tank Frost & Sullivan says it is optimistic on the future growth for Burma because the country is an untapped new frontier at the crossroads of India, China and Southeast Asia offering abundant opportunities. The market research firm’s vice-president Vivek Vaidya said that the fact that […]
Read more »Laos: Steady Growth Charges The ‘Battery of Asia’
December 8th, 2012
Via Emerging Markets blog, a report on Laos: Laos – the sleepy, land-locked nation often overlooked in favor of neighboring Thailand or Vietnam – is finally garnering the international attention that it deserves. The “Jewel of the Mekong” posted 8.0% GDP growth in 2011 and has been the fourth steadiest-growing economy in the world over […]
Read more »Mongolia: A Backdoor To North Korea?
December 8th, 2012
Via GlobalPost, an interesting article on Mongolia’s relationship with North Korea: They come and they go without much international fanfare: delegations of North Korean ministers in Mongolia, invited by the pro-Western government to discuss trade, cultural ties and questions of “mutual interest.” The specifics of these meetings are hard to nail down. “The two sides […]
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.