VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 19

6-FEBRUARY-1995

Financial and Banking News

Public Finance

Kuwait Rejects Refinancing Of Balance Of Payments Loan...For Now

The Managing Director of the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), Mr. 'AliRashid al-Badr, says that Kuwait will not raise a new loan to cover repaymentson its $5.5bn balance of payments loan which start in June this year. However,he did not rule out refinancing later payments, if economic circumstanceschange. In an interview with the Kuwaiti daily al-Anba, Mr....