Africa’s Rise Is Real
Via Foreign Policy, a look at why Africa’s growth skeptics have got it wrong. The continent’s rise is very real: The counter-attack, when it came, failed to live up to our expectations. [...]
Bypassing Pakistan’s Woes, Karachi’s Bourse Booms
Via Emerging Frontiers blog, a look at Pakistan: When Pakistan receives international media coverage, it is usually not pretty. The world’s sixth most populous country has remained in the headlines [...]
The New Global Energy Map
Via Foreign Affairs, a look at how global changes are impacting the world energy order: The energy map of the world is being redrawn — and the global geopolitical order is adrift in [...]
China: Soon To Control Over 40% Of Kazakhstan’s Oil
Via The TengriNews, an interesting article on China’s investment in Kazakhstan’s oil sector: The share of Chinese companies in the Kazakhstan’s Oil and Gas industry will exceed 40% in [...]
A Middle Class Emerges From Peru Growth
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting article on the emergence of a middle class in Peru: As Chinese-made motorcycle-taxis try to avoid minivans on the chaotic and dusty outskirts of [...]
Economist Intelligence Unit Forecasts Mongolia As The Second Fastest Growing Economy
Via the UB Post, a forecast of Mongolia’s growth in 2013: Mongolia is expected to be the second fastest growing economy in the world with 13.5 percent GDP rise in 2013, according to the latest [...]

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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.