Pakistan Looking For Huge Increases In Central Asian Trade
May 24th, 2021 Via Silk Road Briefing, a report on Pakistan’s ambition of significant increases in Central Asian trade: Pakistan is looking to increase trade with neighboring Afghanistan and other countries [...]
Boten: The Renaissance of Laos’s Golden City
May 19th, 2021 Via The Diplomat, an article on the one-time casino boom town on the Laos-China border is on the rise again, powered by billions in Chinese investment: A thick morning mist covers the empty buildings [...]
Syria’s Surprising Solar Boom: Sunlight Powers the Night in Rebel Idlib
May 19th, 2021 Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on how Syrians in a poor, embattled enclave have turned en masse to solar panels to charge their phones and light their homes and tents: When the Syrian [...]
Tracking the Digital Component of the BRI in Central Asia: Kazakhstan
May 19th, 2021 Via Jamestown Foundation, an article on the Digital Silk Road and its influence in Kazakhstan: This is the second of a three-part series describing the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) growing [...]
China’s Belt And Road Initiative: More Misses Than Hits
May 19th, 2021 Via Eurasia Review, analysis of China’s BRI to date: China’s Silk Road OBOR (One Road One Belt) project A fluid and evolving concept, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been mired in [...]
Why the Motorbike Delivery Driver is a Symbol of Our Times
May 14th, 2021 Courtesy of Emerging World, an interesting look at how motorbike riders serve as vital arteries of the global food delivery industry, especially in the emerging world: Jet-lagged from a long flight [...]

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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.