VOL. XXXI

NO. 39

4-JULY-1988

Financial and Banking News

BUDGETS AND REVENUES

SAMA Annual Report Incorporates Major Statistical Revisions

The latest annual report, for 1407 (1987), from the Saudi Arabian MonetaryAgency (SAMA) incorporates a major retrospective revision of the country'spublic finance data going back, in some cases, to 1983. SAMA does not comment onthe reason for the revisions to its presentation of the country's budget data,which generally leave the totals unchanged while inserting...