Guayana: World’s Fastest-Growing Economy Seeks to Diversify Away From Oil
Via Bloomberg, an article on Guyana’s efforts to diversity it economy: Guyana, the world’s fastest-growing economy, plans to use its newfound oil and gas wealth to fund investments in other [...]
New Namibian Oil Discoveries
Via News24, an article on two new oil discoveries in Namibia: Two oil discoveries offshore of Namibia are likely to bring in an equivalent R53 billion in revenues for the state, a prominent global [...]
Morocco Plans To Set Up EV Battery Gigafactory
Via Asharq Al-Awsat, a report on Morocco’s plans to establish an EV battery gigafactory: Morocco is negotiating with electric vehicle battery manufacturers to set up a plant in the country to [...]
From the Ruins of War, A Tourist Resort Emerges In Azerbaijan
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, an article on Baku’s efforts to turn Shusha, a fabled fortress town that was key to last year’s war between Azerbaijan and Armenia into a resort: Above a [...]
Ghana’s ‘Success’ Exposes the West’s Toxic Development Model
Via Foreign Policy, a report on Ghana’s economic development: At first glance, an item of business news that crossed my transom one morning this week seemed like a clear economic win from [...]
Is Pakistan The Next Sri Lanka?
Via The Diplomat, a look at Pakistan’s economic crisis: Hambantota in southern Sri Lanka housed ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa following the recent crisis, until he was forced to flee the [...]

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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.