Azerbaijan: One Of Caspian Region’s Most Important Strategic Export Openings To West
Via Eurasia Review, a profile of Azerbaijan: Azerbaijan, one of the oldest oil producing countries in the world, is an important oil and natural gas supplier, particularly for European markets. [...]
China’s Economic Disparity…In Maps
Via Matt Hartzell’s blog, an interesting look at China’s economic distribution: [click to enlarge] How is income distributed across the Chinese nation? As we can see in the above map, [...]
Ethiopia’s Broadband Network – A Chinese Trojan Horse?
Via Foreign Policy, some commentary on Ethiopia’s recent decision to purchase broadband network equipment from ZTE: Ethiopia’s signing last month of a $800 million broadband network with [...]
Myanmar: Bust To Boom Or Bust To Bust?
Via The Diplomat, an interesting article on Myanmar: Walking down the street in Yangon, the feeling of change is palpable. New buildings are being constructed and you cannot help but notice the [...]
Optimism In Liberia
Via How We Made It In Africa, a report on Liberia: “Everybody who has lived in Liberia for the past five years will tell you there have been a lot of positive improvements. In 2012, GDP growth was [...]
The Business of Brewing Beer in Eastern Congo
Via Foreign Policy, an interesting article on the business of beer in the Democratic Republic of Congo: It’s a June night in Kinshasa, and rapper JB Mpiana’s weekly VIP bash is just [...]

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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.