VOL. XXXIV

NO. 2

15-OCTOBER-1990

Financial and Banking News

Gulf Crisis

Unctad Offers Preliminary Assessment of Gulf Crisis Fallout

The economic impact of the Gulf crisis on world trade as a whole is likely tobe negligible, although the effects on certain countries and on the markets forcertain goods is likely to be considerable, according to a preliminaryassessment by the United National Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad).The report, which is dated 25 September, says that total annual...