KUWAITI FINANCE MINISTER CALLS FOR BANK MERGERS AND GREATER EFFICIENCY

In an interview with MEES Associate Editor Mehran Nakhjavani, Kuwait's Minister of Finance and Oil, Shaikh 'Ali Khalifah al-Sabah has reiterated his call for greater efficiency in the economy, and in the financial sector in particular. Far from trying to pump up the domestic economy, Shaikh 'Ali said that the recommendations of the Economic Reactivation Committee, of which he is chairman (MEES, 18 February),...