Forget China… Switch To Zimbabwe, Mexico Or Egypt
Via the Financial Times, an interesting article on how growth is ‘driven by knowledge – at the level of society, not the individual’: Where does growth come from? Why do some countries [...]
Myanmar’s Mining Industry
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), analysis of Myanmar’s extractive mining industry: Myanmar villagers pan for copper near the Sabal hill mine in Monywa in 2012. Summary A new bill submitted [...]
Ethiopia: One Of Africa’s Best Kept Secrets
Via Silk Invest, a look at Ethiopia: In this edition of Silk Invest’s Frontier Market Insights we take a close look at what we believe is one of Africa’s great treasures: Ethiopia. At the bottom [...]
A New Scramble For Africa… Via Infrastructure
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), an interesting analysis of how improved transport links reveal a renewed economic scramble for the African interior: There is a new scramble for Africa. [...]
Afghanistan’s Untold Economic Success Story
Courtesy of Foreign Policy, some commentary on Afghanistan: Managing Afghanistan’s nascent industrial base will be critical as the nation attempts to build a modern economy that is increasingly [...]
Colombia’s Economy Remains Resilient
Via Emerging Market Insights, a look at Colombia: Multinationals have for years considered Colombia one of the safest long-term bets in Latin America, but over the last several months a more negative [...]

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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.