Afghanistan: Prospects and Challenges to Regional Connectivity
Via The Diplomat, a look at Afghanistan’s regional connectivity ambitions: Afghanistan’s strategic location has for a long time been touted as a competitive advantage for the country. The [...]
The Top Ten Fastest Growing Economies for 2019
Via The New Silk Road Monitor, a look at the top ten fastest growing economies in 2019: The IMF has just published its latest World Economic Outlook, including a downward revision to its earlier [...]
China’s Plan For Railway To Uzbekistan Is Transforming Central Asian Geopolitics
Via The Times of Central Asia, an interesting look at the impact that China’s planned railway to Uzbekistan is having upon Central Asia: China is competing with Russia for greater influence [...]
Another Turkmen Pipe Mystery
Via Radio Free Europe, an interesting article on Turkmenistan: Turkmenistan has been purchasing a lot of pipeline segments for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural-gas pipeline [...]
Chinese Investment in Africa: Beyond Belt and Road
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how – beyond the Belt and Road infrastructure projects – thousands of entrepreneurs from China are also setting up on the continent: Wilson Wu [...]
Kazakhstan Opens Up To New Ideas
Via The Banker, an article on how Kazakhstan has bold ambitions to become not just a strong regional player, but one of the world’s top economies in the next 30 years: Since 2002, Kazakhstan [...]

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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.