Pakistan’s View On CPEC ‘Master Plan’
May 22nd, 2017 Via Dawn, a detailed look at Pakistan’s perspective on OBOR: The floodgates are about to open. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in Beijing over the weekend to participate in the One Belt, [...]
Iran Swiftly Moving Towards a Knowledge-Based Economy
May 22nd, 2017 Via Techrasa, a preliminary look at Iran’s move towards a knowledge-based economy: A report recently published by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) revealed that [...]
Fish-Trading Pioneers of North Korea’s Market Economy
May 21st, 2017 Via NK News (subscription required), an interesting look at how “running traders” during the 1990s laid the groundwork for the DPRK’s fledging private markets: I want to introduce [...]
Southeast Asia In China’s Belt and Road Initiative
May 19th, 2017 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed analysis of Southeast Asia’s position in China’s Belt and Road initiative: Southeast Asia is the pivot of China’s sprawling [...]
Iran’s Railway Revolution
May 19th, 2017 Via ReconnectingAsia, a detailed look at Iran’s railway revolution: If he were alive today, Darius the Great would have cheered the commissioning by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and [...]
South Asia: A Bump in the Belt and Road
May 16th, 2017 Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed analysis of South Asia’s involvement in China’s OBOR program: As part of its ambitious Belt and Road Initiative, China is looking [...]

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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.