VOL. XXXV

NO. 27

6-APRIL-1992

Financial and Banking News

Budgets & Revenues

Saudi Price Cuts Will Add $1.3bn to Government Deficit

The package of price cuts ordered last month by King Fahd ibn `Abd al-`Azizof Saudi Arabia will cost the Saudi treasury SR5bn ($1.3bn) per year, accordingto Dr. Salih ibn `Abd al-`Aziz al-`Umair, Saudi Deputy Minister of Finance andNational Economy. At the micro level, the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture andWater estimates that the reduction in the water rates will...