An Economic Roundabout: Can Central Asia Be Transformed Into An Automotive Hub?
Via Automotive Logistics, an article on Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan efforts to strengthen their supply bases to boost local production of cars and parts: Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan have ambitions to [...]
Uzbekistan’s Investment Bonanza
Via Eurasia Review, a report on Uzbekistan’s growing foreign investment: Investments in Uzbekistan saw a massive surge year-on-year in the first half of 2019, President Shavkat Mirziyoyev told [...]
Follow the Digital Silk Road
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), commentary on the digital Silk Road: Southeast Asia is home to many of China’s most high-profile Belt and Road Initiative projects, including Kyaukpyu [...]
Cracking Frontier Markets
Via Harvard Business Review, an article on entering frontier markets where success lies in creating new markets that serve the billions of nonconsumers unable to find a product or service to help [...]
Pakistan Struggles To Capitalize On A Golden Opportunity In Balochistan
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at Blochistan: Until Pakistan and the Tethyan Copper Co. settle their dispute, development of the country’s Reko Diq gold and [...]
PNG’s Faltering Economic Recovery
Via the DevPolicy Blog, a look at Papua New Guinea’s economic challenges: According to World Bank data, Papua New Guinea is the tenth most resource intensive economy in the world. Using its [...]

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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.