Colombia and Argentina: Who’s Bigger?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a comparison of Colombia and Argentina, and a reflection on Colombia’s rapid rise: Two years ago, when we started our tenure at Colombia’s finance ministry, [...]
Indonesia: The Case For Adding An Extra “I” Into BRIC Has Never Been Stronger
Via The Financial Times, a look at Indonesia’s economic growth: During the last decade, while the world has looked to the Bric countries to deliver growth and China and India have been the main [...]
Oil Diplomacy In The Sudans
Via The Council on Foreign Relations, a detailed look at China’s role in the Sudan-South Sudan negotiations: At the end of September, the presidents of Sudan and South Sudan signed a series of [...]
Ethiopia: One Of World’s Fastest Growing Economies
Via The Financial Times, a look at Ethiopia’s economic growth: Ethiopia appears to be doing something right. One of the world’s five fastest growing economies in 2010, it’s expected to [...]
The Beijing-Baghdad Oil Axis
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at the growing petroleum partnership between Iraq and China: Chinese oil companies have invested billions of dollars into Africa over the past [...]
India’s Growing Investment In East Africa
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a report on India’s growing investment interest in East Africa, particularly given the region’s petroleum potential: India’s largest [...]

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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.