VOL. XXXIV

NO. 30

29-APRIL-1991

Financial and Banking News

REGIONAL BANKING

Kuwait to Pay $800mn in Compensation to Egyptian Workers

Kuwait will pay 69,000 Egyptians a total of $800mn to compensate them for bank deposits lost when they fled Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion, according to Egypt's Minister for Manpower, Mr. 'Isam Salih. The minister told a local weekly magazine that the money would be paid once reconstruction work begins in Kuwait. About 20,000 other Egyptian workers remained in Kuwait...