Western Investors Eye Iran’s Tech Sector Ahead Of Final Nuclear Deal
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, an interesting look at Iran’s tech sector: In the week following the framework nuclear deal between world powers and Iran, Tehran-based Internet [...]
How Corruption Helped North Korea
Via the Carnegie Endowment, an interesting look at the role that corruption may have played in helping North Korea: “Nobody stole under Stalin,” many old-timers in the former Soviet Union like to [...]
Pakistan In Line For Upgrade To Emerging Market Status
Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, a report on Pakistan: Index provider MSCI has revealed it plans to consider upgrading Pakistan from frontier- to emerging-market status next year. Citing “a [...]
From Digikala To Hamijoo: The Iranian Startup Revolution, Phase Two
Courtesy of The Guardian, an interesting article on Iranian tech start ups: Tehran may be thousands of miles away from Silicon Valley, home to the world’s largest hi-tech corporations and most [...]
There’s An App For That … In Myanmar
Via The Diplomat, an interesting report on Myanmar developers who are capitalizing on a growing demand for local mobile apps: In 2004, the same year Facebook was launched by Mark Zuckerberg and his [...]
Bolivia’s Economic Growth
Via The World Folio, an interesting look at Bolivia’s economic growth: Bolivia has made more economic progress since President Evo Morales took office in 2006 than in all the preceding 180 [...]

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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.