China And Southeast Asia: Unbalanced Development In The Greater Mekong Subregion
Via the European Financial Review, a look at the great Mekong sub-region: Integrating with Southeast Asia is a key component of China’s multi-pronged regionalisation around its borders as its [...]
India: States Have Become Engine Of Growth
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs (subscription required), an interesting look at the increasing economic influence of India’s economic growth: When Nitish Kumar became chief minister of the [...]
Peru Grows Uneasy As Boom Slows
Via the New York Times, a look at Peru’s slowing economy: From his office window, Henrik Kristensen, the chief executive of the company that runs Peru’s main port, can still look out at rows [...]
Pakistan’s IP Gas Pipeline: A Road To Stability
Via Eurasia Review, an article on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline (IP) project: Pakistan is facing an acute energy crisis and there is a huge gap in demand and supply. Pakistan, being an energy [...]
Avoiding Africa’s Resource Curse
Courtesy of Foreign Affairs (subscription required), a very interesting look at some ways Africa could avoid a “resource curse”: In October 2011, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a [...]
Russia And Azerbaijan Outline Energy Cooperation
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), some analysis on Russia and Azerbaijan’s plans for energy cooperation: As the geopolitical dynamics in the Caucasus continue to shift, Russia and [...]

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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.