Taliban’s Focus On Infrastructure Development
Via Eurasia Review, a report on the Taliban’s focus on infrastructure: The Taliban have advertised their efforts towards infrastructure development over the last two years, since taking over [...]
The United States’ Missed Opportunity in Latin America
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, a look at U.S.’s missed opportunity to prioritize investing in Latin America: When policymakers consider national security, they tend to think first of military [...]
‘Strings Attached’: Saudi Arabia Steps Up Demands In Tech Deals with China
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how Alibaba’s and SenseTime’s huge joint ventures in Gulf kingdom have come with stringent requirements around training local teams and [...]
Ethiopia To Set Up Large Data Centre Amid Reported Bitcoin Mining Surge
Via Reuters, a report on Ethiopia’s efforts to develop digital infrastructure: Ethiopia has signed a preliminary agreement to develop infrastructure for data mining and artificial intelligence [...]
Bullish on “Incredible India”
Courtesy of Emerging World, a compendium of thoughts around India’s place as the “next big thing in emerging markets”: Remember the “Incredible India” tourism campaign? It’s [...]
China in the DRC
Via Transcend Media Service, an article on China’s involvement in Congolese cobalt mining industry: Several weeks ago here I reviewed Siddharth Kara’s book “Cobalt Red, How the Blood of [...]

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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.