VOL. XLII

No 42

18-October-1999

KUWAIT

Kuwaiti Reforms Expected To Proceed Despite Opposition

Despite protests from MPs and a rise in oil prices, Kuwaitseconomic reform process is expected to go ahead, albeit at a leisurely pace.This was not so obvious last month when, following an accelerated issuing ofAmiri decrees over the summer months in the parliamentary vacuum created afterits dissolution on 4 May, MPs voiced concerns about the increased economicburden on Kuwaiti citizens and the allegedly...