VOL. XXX

NO. 18

9-FEBRUARY-1987

Financial and Banking News

AID FLOWS

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia Account for 96% of OPEC Aid

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia accounted for 96% of the total volume of aiddisbursed by all OPEC members and multilateral agencies during 1985, accordingto the 1986 Report on Development Cooperation published by the OECD'sDevelopment Assistance Committee (DAC) last week. The DAC report put SaudiArabian net aid disbursements during 1985 at $2.6bn, or 3% of its GNP, comparedwith a total...