KUWAIT
 
Kuwait 2012-13 Budget Maintains Record Spending
 
By Basim Itayim
 
Unveiling of the Kuwaiti budget this year was delayed several months as the ongoing political crisis between the government and the opposition continued to paralyze decision making. Parliament was dissolved in October and fresh elections are scheduled for 1 December. With no sitting parliament, the budget law was issued by the Amir Shaikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, in a decree published in the...