Bolivia’s Economic Model Is Running Out of Gas
Via World Politics Review, commentary on how Bolivia’s hydrocarbon-led economic model is running out of gas: In the past 15 years, the Bolivian economy tripled in size and poverty was cut in half, [...]
Kazakhstan: Eurasia’s Next Middle Power
Via National Interest, a look at Kazakhstan’s rise as a middle power: Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is certainly on a path to enhance his country’s diplomatic profile by [...]
China and Sudan: An Investment in Peace?
Courtesy of The Diplomat, commentary on the potential that Beijing could hold the key to any future peace in Sudan: Sudan is now in the fourth week of intense military confrontations in the ongoing [...]
China-North Korea Truck Trade May Fully Resume In 1 Month, Along With Tourism
Via South China Morning Post, a report that China-North Korea truck trade may fully resume in 1 month, along with tourism: North Korea may reopen its border with China as early as next month to fully [...]
Paul Kagame, Crystal Ventures, and Rwanda’s New Economic Diplomacy
Courtesy of The Africa Report, a look at how – over the past two years – Rwanda has been aggressively expanding its businesses, including the commercial wing of President Paul [...]
Africa’s ‘Warlords’ Are Actually Savvy, Globalized Business Managers
Via World Politics Review, commentary on the business and managerial acumen of Africa’s ‘warlords’: In most Hollywood films that use civil wars in Africa as a plot device, the [...]

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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.