The 31 Fastest Growing Cities On The Planet
October 19th, 2012
Via the Business Insider, a list of the fastest growing cities on earth: More people in history live in cities than ever before in our planets history. Urbanization rates have increased dramatically in the last decade, according to a new report by the U.N. Settlements Program, UN-Habitat. But the way people are urbanizing are changing. People […]
Read more »Government, Geography, And Growth: The True Drivers Of Economic Development
October 18th, 2012
Via Foreign Affairs, an interesting article by Jeffrey Sachs on the true drivers of economic development: According to the economist Daron Acemoglu and the political scientist James Robinson, economic development hinges on a single factor: a country’s political institutions. More specifically, as they explain in their new book, Why Nations Fail, it depends on the […]
Read more »Evolution Of Latin America’s Economies
October 16th, 2012
Via The Council on Foreign Relations, an interesting look at the growth of Latin America’s economies: I’ve been looking recently at the structural changes in many of Latin America’s economies (through the evolution of their exports). The different trajectories are quite striking, as you can see in the graphs below. Out of Latin America’s biggest […]
Read more »Emerging Markets Consumers: A Look Ahead To 2050
October 16th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at emerging market consumers in 2050: The Philippines and Peru aren’t always the first names to crop up when it comes to analysing the brightest prospects in emerging markets. But they are two of the surprise performers in our study of the Consumer in 2050, which looks at how […]
Read more »Oil Diplomacy In The Sudans
October 13th, 2012
Via The Council on Foreign Relations, a detailed look at China’s role in the Sudan-South Sudan negotiations: At the end of September, the presidents of Sudan and South Sudan signed a series of agreements allowing for the resumption of oil exports (WSJ) that have been stalled for eight months, and the establishment of a demilitarized […]
Read more »Ethiopia: One Of World’s Fastest Growing Economies
October 13th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at Ethiopia’s economic growth: Ethiopia appears to be doing something right. One of the world’s five fastest growing economies in 2010, it’s expected to reach 7 per cent growth this year and next and the government hopes for double digit growth in the medium term. But this is not […]
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.