June 22nd, 2019
Courtesy of The Wall Street Journal, a report on the private-equity firm’s emerging-markets push which comes as U.S. firms explore so-called frontier markets across Asia and Africa New York-based Cerberus Capital Management LP is in talks to make its first investment in Mongolia as part of a broader push into the world’s riskiest markets. The private-equity firm, which manages $39 […]
Read more »Coca-Cola To Invest US300M In Ethiopia
June 22nd, 2019
Via The Reporter, an article on Coca Cola’s plans to invest in Ethiopia: Stretching on 14.3 hectares of land, a new Coca-Cola Factory that requires an investment outlay of two billion birr or USD 70 million, said to be the largest plant for coca cola in the country, is set to be finalized early next […]
Read more »June 22nd, 2019
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an interesting look at how Europe’s professional sports clubs are becoming top players in outward direct investment: Europe’s increasingly foreign-owned football clubs are becoming top players in outward direct investment. In March, a delegation from Real Madrid CF met Iraq’s prime minister in Baghdad to talk about setting up a […]
Read more »Regional Rivalries Over Sri Lanka’s Ports
June 19th, 2019
Via East Asia Forum, a look at how foreign investments in Sri Lanka are made within the tapestry of regional and global power rivalries: When it comes to Sri Lanka’s national security and sovereignty, nothing seems more guaranteed to generate heated discussion than the spectre of foreign involvement in seaport developments. After years of wrangling, […]
Read more »June 17th, 2019
Via Reuters, a report on Ethiopia’s plan to open up its telecom sector: Ethiopia is aiming to award telco licenses to multinational mobile companies by the end of the year, ending a state monopoly and opening up one of the world’s last major closed telecoms markets, three people with direct knowledge of the process said. […]
Read more »The Collapse Of Venezuela And Its Oil Industry
June 12th, 2019
Via Forbes, an article on the destruction of PDVSA, Venezuela’s national oil company: How could Venezuela, the country with the largest oil resources in the planet — which received the largest commodity windfall in Latin America’s history and had the highest income per-capita in the region — end up with the worst economic depression, hyperinflation, […]
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