Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 25

21-Jun-2010

SUDAN

World Bank Says Sudans Oil Revenue Should Be Invested In Non-Oil Industries

The World Bank has advised Sudan to use its oil production to create more balanced and sustainable growth, according to reports on 11 June. With an independence referendum due in January 2011 in Southern Sudan, the source of most of the countrys oil, the government in Khartoum needs to invest in agriculture and other non-oil industries, and reduce the dominant...