How Tajikistan and Uzbekistan Are Resolving Transport Connectivity Issues
Via The Diplomat, a report on how – despite the potential for a conflict of interests on the transport and transit track – it is still beneficial for Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to [...]
Algeria Needs an Economic Transformation
Via Foreign Policy, a look at Algeria, which some argue, could become more than a petrostate with the right reforms: On Sept. 14, Algeria’s constitutional court certified President Abdelmadjid [...]
Saudi’s NEOM Drives Global Steel Demand
A fifth of the world’s steel is being used by Saudi Arabia’s mega project, according to this article from Semafor: Neom.com A fifth of the world’s steel is being gobbled up by just one [...]
China’s Evolving Strategy in South and Central Asia
Via The Diplomat, a look at how China’s growing footprint in South and Central Asia has been made possible by the influx of grants, loans, mergers, and economic concessions for projects: In the [...]
Bridging the Green Power Gap: A Nigerian Village Shows The Way
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a report on one Nigerian village showing how to develop human opportunity and protect the planet at the same time: In June, I walked through the streets of Lugbe, a small [...]
Beijing: Making Inroads in North Africa
Via the Atlantic Council, commentary on China’s growing engagement with North Africa: Talk of China in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) rarely focuses on the latter, but Beijing has made [...]

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Wildcats & Black Sheep is a personal interest blog dedicated to the identification and evaluation of maverick investment opportunities arising in frontier - and, what some may consider to be, “rogue” or “black sheep” - markets around the world.

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.