Every Nation for Itself: Which Countries Will Rise to the Top in a Leaderless World?
June 4th, 2012
Courtesy of HBR, a report on which countries will rise to the top in the years to come: Over the years, the phrase “emerging market” has become all but meaningless. No group that includes China, Argentina, Kenya, the Philippines, and Romania can possibly qualify as a single coherent class. To pick the likeliest winners in […]
Read more »Decade Of The CIVETS?
May 28th, 2012
Via Emerging Markets blog, a report on the CIVETS: The global bank HSBC, in its Business Without Borders newsletter, tells us that while the past decade was all about the BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China – we are now in the decade of what it has dubbed the CIVETS, which stands for Colombia, […]
Read more »Out of (Which) Africa?
May 26th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, an interesting look at Africa’s growth potential: Bono said it, Ban Ki-Moon said it, Thabo Mbeki said it: the 21st century will be the African century. But as funds single out investments in the continent and multinational companies battle for their share of the pie, a crucial question remains: which Africa are […]
Read more »The Energy Wars Heat Up
May 21st, 2012
Via Tom’s Dispatch, a summary of a new book examining six recent clashes and Conflicts on a planet heading into energy overdrive: Conflict and intrigue over valuable energy supplies have been features of the international landscape for a long time. Major wars over oil have been fought every decade or so since World War I, […]
Read more »The Global Middle Class Is Bigger Than We Thought
May 21st, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting look at the global middle class: The swelling middle class in emerging economies is transforming the economic balance of power across the globe. Measuring it, however, is no easy task. There is no widely accepted definition of what constitutes the middle class, and the most common ways of measuring its […]
Read more »Ghana’s Golden Opportunity
May 16th, 2012
Via Mark Mobius’ blog, a look at Ghana: This year could prove an interesting one for Africa’s west coastal country, Ghana. Presidential and parliamentary elections are slated to be held by year-end, the results of which are almost sure to impact the shape of the country’s future. President John Atta Mills has stated in the […]
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.