After Meles, What’s Next For The Ethiopian Economy?
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at Ethiopia in light of the passing of Prime Minister Zenawi: The Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi, whose death was announced on Tuesday following [...]
Myanmar’s Emerging Middle Class
Via The Japan Times, an interesting article on Myanmar: Just last month I made my first visit to Myanmar, a place Rudyard Kipling referred to as “quite unlike any land you know about”. [...]
Emerging Markets: Facing Harder Climb?
Via The Financial Times, some interesting commentary on the challenges ahead for emerging markets: Only a year ago sentiment about emerging market equities was overwhelmingly optimistic. Today [...]
Mexico: An Under-The-Radar Hotspot For VC Investors In Latin America
Via GigaOm, a look at whether Mexico is the “new Brazil” for venture capital investing: Brazil was yesterday’s hotspot for investing in startups in Latin America — tomorrow’s may be [...]
Russia: Courting The East, Not The West
Via The Financial Times, an interesting article on Russia’s efforts to to woo its Asian neighbours, pouring money into Far East cities such as Vladivostok and seeking out new trade [...]
Emerging iPhone App Markets: Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Turkey
Via TheNextWeb, analysis of some emergin iPhone app markets worldwide: Two years ago, the total overall revenue generated in the Apple App Store was predominantly generated by the United States. [...]

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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.