After Meles, What’s Next For The Ethiopian Economy?
August 26th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at Ethiopia in light of the passing of Prime Minister Zenawi: The Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi, whose death was announced on Tuesday following prolonged ill health, won’t be mourned by the dissidents that he repressed or their supporters. But he will be missed by those who value […]
Read more »Emerging Markets: Facing Harder Climb?
August 26th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, some interesting commentary on the challenges ahead for emerging markets: Only a year ago sentiment about emerging market equities was overwhelmingly optimistic. Today pessimism is rife, though not yet uniform. On the S&P Global Broad Market Index emerging markets were down 17.6 per cent in the year to July 31, while […]
Read more »Emerging iPhone App Markets: Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey
August 19th, 2012
Via TheNextWeb, analysis of some emergin iPhone app markets worldwide: Two years ago, the total overall revenue generated in the Apple App Store was predominantly generated by the United States. Looking at the revenues generated by the top 200 highest grossing apps per country in June 2010, the US was responsible for 45% of this […]
Read more »In Search of the Global Middle Class: A New Index
August 16th, 2012
Via The Carnegie Endowment, an interesting article on potential to use the number of passenger cars in circulation as a direct measure of the middle class in developing countries: The swelling middle class in emerging economies has received much attention in recent years, as it well should. The implications of its rise are far-reaching, from […]
Read more »Chinese Investment In Africa
August 13th, 2012
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a very interesting look at China’s investments in Africa:
Read more »The Five Largest Economies In Africa
August 13th, 2012
Via Ventures Africa, a look at the five largest economies in Africa: No African nation has yet joined the ranks of the developed nations in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), but there are some sizeable economies on the continent, and economies that are gradually increasing in size. Though South Africa is by […]
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.