VOL.XL

No.5

3-February-1997

YEMEN

1997Is A Critical Year For Yemen

TheYemeni budget for 1997, which forms part of the first five-year plan(1996-2000), was passed by the National Assembly early last month. The budgethad been delayed by the early abstention of the Islamicist Islah party overreligious education spending, which it has traditionally controlled and which,it was proposed, should be brought within the purview of the government in 1997.However Islah, which is one of the members of the...