Chad’s Cash Cow Gum Arabic Fine?Tunes Its Future
Via The Africa Report, a report on Chad’s gum arabic industry: As the world’s second largest producer of acacia gum, Chad is benefitting from rising prices linked to the war in neighbouring [...]
Foreign Investment Trends in Latin America
Via Geopolitical Futures, a report on FDI trends in Latin America, where FDI is in high demand, but most goes to just a few countries: Latin American countries remain trapped in a low-growth [...]
Unregistered Three-Wheelers: Antidote to Philippines Traffic
Via Rest of World, a look at how Filipinos are embracing electric three-wheelers faster than officials can regulate them Unregistered three-wheelers big enough for whole families are a popular [...]
Nobody’s Backyard: A Confident Central Asia
Via Carnegie, an article on how the decline of the United States’ influence in Eurasia and Russia’s aggression against Ukraine have thrust the smaller nations of Central Asia into the global [...]
The Gulf of Thailand: Next U.S.-China Flashpoint?
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how Beijing’s backing of Cambodian infrastructure could alter regional balance of power: While geopolitical tensions between China and the U.S. have soared in the [...]
As China Buys Less Oil, Angola Struggles To Repay Debt
Via Eurasia Review, a report on how – as China buys less oil – Angola struggles to repay its debt: Angola’s long-running financial relationship with China has been built on a simple [...]

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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.