South Sudan: A Hard Road Ahead Over Its Oil
November 13th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, an article on South Sudan: Henry Odwar has a wonderful, but difficult job. The African politician must build up an oil industry in a country with proven reserves and a record of production. Unfortunately, Mr Odwar hails from South Sudan, the world’s newest country, with nascent legislation, and an adult population […]
Read more »The Sleepy Kingdom Comes Alive: Laos Rushes To Modernize
November 12th, 2012
Via Worldcrunch, a look at Laos: The feeling of lethargy still lingers in the streets of old Vientiane. Things, however, are beginning to change: the time for indolence is over. The capital of Laos, on the banks of the Mekong River, is brushing off its image as a sleepy, colonial market town by […]
Read more »The Arab World: A Blooming Market For Technology & Internet
November 11th, 2012
Via The Next Web, an interesting look at the Arab world and opportunities for technology and Internet related investments: 100 million Internet users, 286 million phone users, and a three trillion dollar economy. These are the three numbers that anyone should remember when looking at the Internet and technology opportunities in today’s Arab world. The […]
Read more »Sri Lanka: An Upper Middle Income Country by 2015
November 8th, 2012
Via ColomboPage, a report on Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka will become an upper middle income country with a per capita income of US$ 4,000 by 2015, the Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Ajith Nivard Cabral says. Sri Lanka’s current per capita income is expected to reach US$ 3,000 by the year’s end […]
Read more »Africa’s Consumer Revolution
November 6th, 2012
Via Project Syndicate, an interesting look at African consumers: Nowadays, Africa’s economic potential – and the business opportunities that go with it – is widely acknowledged. Poverty and unemployment are still more widespread than in other emerging markets, but accelerating growth since 2000 has made Africa the world’s second-fastest-growing region (after emerging Asia and equal […]
Read more »Future Is At The Frontier
November 1st, 2012
Via What Investment, a view on frontier markets from BlackRock: Sam Vecht, director and portfolio manager at investment firm BlackRock, has hotly tipped frontier markets to outperform emerging markets. According to Vecht, while emerging markets are still interesting, they are no longer delivering the returns seen in recent years, as reflected in the MSCI China […]
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.