Senegal: On Track For World-Beating Growth In 2023
Via African Business, additional optimism for Senegal which is on course to record a world-beating 8% growth this year, thanks largely to expected oil and gas revenues: The World Bank predicts that [...]
Algeria: Emerging From Isolation
Via Rane’s STRATFOR Worldview, analysis of Algeria’s emergence from isolation: Algeria has adopted a new strategy of international engagement as it seeks to modernize its economy, but [...]
Poland: Key To Improving Central and Eastern Europe’s Railway Connections
Via Emerging Europe, a report on why Poland is key to improving Central and Eastern Europe’s railway connections: Russia’s war on Ukraine has brought home the importance of investment in Central [...]
Africa’s Latest Unicorn, MNT-Halan, Answers A Very Important Question
Via TechCabal, a look at Africa’s latest unicorn, MNT-Halan: MNT-Halan, an Egyptian startup bundling fintech and e-commerce, has snagged a billion dollars valuation at the back of a $400 million [...]
In North Korea, Almighty US Dollar Still Reigns Supreme
Via NK News, commentary on how repeated currency reforms have eroded trust in the DPRK won, making foreign money essential for many transactions: North Korea has long allowed an unusual degree of [...]
Digital Infrastructure Propels New SE Asian Tigers
Courtesy of the Asia Times, a report on how China’s trade with Southeast Asia is driving a world-beating economic boom: China’s exports to Southeast Asia jumped by 20% in 2022, despite a [...]

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WILDCATS AND BLACK SHEEP
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.