Japan Invests In Cambodia’s Goal of Becoming a Top Cashew Exporter
Via Nikkei Asia, a report on Japanese investment into Cambodia’s cashew industry: A Japanese real estate developer has helped Cambodia take a big step toward becoming the world’s top [...]
The Philippines Needs Rice, But Young People Don’t Want To Farm It
Courtesy of The Washington Post, a report on the Philippines – where 2.4 million Filipinos work as rice farmers. But for young people, a rice farmer’s grueling and often impoverished life [...]
Apps Aren’t a Magic Solution to Underdevelopment in Africa
Via Jacobin, commentary on how tech start-up leaders are touting digitalization as the path to prosperity in Africa, but the continent’s economy remains heavily based on exporting its unprocessed [...]
Philippines Courts Investors For ‘China-Free’ Nickel Supply Chain
Via The Financial Times, a report on Manila’s efforts to pitch itself as alternative for western countries seeking to diversify sources of EV battery material: The Philippines is scouting for [...]
Global Firms Mull Placing Kenya Investments on Hold as Risks Uncertain
Via Kenyan Wall Street, an article on global firms reconsidering Kenyan investments given recent risks: As Kenya reels from protests and uncertainty, even after President Ruto’s announced his [...]
Improving Indonesia’s Investment Climate: A Multi-Pronged Approach For Sustainable Growth
Via Eurasia Review, commentary on Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, which has significant potential to attract both domestic and foreign investment. However, to fully realize this [...]

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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.