India’s Challenge to Belt and Road in Asia
Via the Geopolitical Monitor, an article on India’a challenge to China’s BRI in Asia: Over the past few years, and most notably during recent border clashes in Ladakh’s Galwan valley, [...]
Ecuador’s Distant Dream of a Green Recovery
Via Foreign Policy, an article on Ecuador’s struggle to meet its climate goals under IMF austerity: Standing halfway up a hillside in the city’s outskirts, environmental engineer Andres [...]
Uganda Supports Somalia’s Bid To Join the EAC
Via The Ugandan Monitor, a report on Ugandan President Museveni pledge to support Somalia in its bid to join the East African Community (EAC) : President Museveni has pledged to support Somalia in [...]
How America Can Foster An African Economic Boom
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs, commentary on how America can help foster an African economic boom: In U.S. policy circles, Africa is generally viewed as a backwater, peripheral to U.S. economic and [...]
North Korean Efforts To Acquire Foreign Currency
Via The Diplomat, a look at the North Korean government’s persistent efforts to acquire foreign currency which reflects the severity of the economic crisis the country is facing: In recent years, [...]
Ivory Coast Wants A Bigger Bite Of The Cocoa Business
Courtesy of The New York Times, an article on a new generation of Ivory Coast chocolatiers who are striving to change an industry that has long left cocoa farmers in poverty: The worker carefully [...]

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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.