Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLIX

No 8

20-February-2006

OIL PRICES

G8 Finance Ministers See High Oil Prices As Economic Risk, Back Producer-Consumer Dialogue

G8 finance ministers say economic growth remains solid and is expected to continue through 2006 but warn that high and volatile energy prices remain a risk to economic growth. In their 11 February statement following their meeting in Moscow, the ministers reviewed the global energy outlook and said they welcomed the decision to focus on...