VOL. XXXIV

NO. 10

10-DECEMBER-1990

Financial and Banking News

Budgets & Revenues

Saudi Arabia Stands to Retain few, if any, of its Windfall Oil Revenues

The value of Saudi oil exports stands to increase by $15bn due to higherprices and production following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, but this so-calledwindfall is likely to be entirely eaten up by the costs of contributing to thedeployment of troops in the Gulf, extending aid to Saudi allies, and investingin its oil industry to ensure that higher...