Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan: Facing Reality of Central Asia’s Economic Development
Via the Times of Central Asia, an article on Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan’s economic performance over the last couple of years: Increasing discrepancies between a growing avalanche [...]
Turkmenistan Still Has An Option To Direct Its Gas Westward
Via Trend, a report on Turkmenistan’s gas export options: Enormous quantities of natural gas are concentrated in one limited (Caspian) region. The nations that own it – Russia, Iran, [...]
China’s Maritime Silk Road
Via Forbes, an interesting look at China deal to take over a key Abu Dhabi port: The next stop on China’s “21st Century Maritime Silk Road” has been chosen: Abu Dhabi. At the end of last [...]
CPEC Invigorating Blue Diplomacy
Via the Pakistan Observer, an article on OBOR, CPEC, and the impact on regional diplomacy: Seas play a vital role for diplomacy and trade in global environment and have shaped Blue Diplomacy. [...]
Tajikistan: Pakistan’s Gateway to Central Asia
Via The Diplomat, a report on how Islamabad and Dushanbe have grown closer, pulled together by mutually beneficial energy projects: Tajikistan, a Central Asian state formerly part of the Soviet [...]
Emerging Markets will Dominate List of World’s 10 Largest Economies by 2050
Via Frontera, a graphical look at how emerging markets will dominate the world’s largest economies by 2050: This rally in emerging markets stocks and bonds has given rise to worries that 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.