VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 42

17-JULY-1995

Financial and Banking News

Economic Policy

Qatar Bids To Join Gulf Reformers

The new regime in Qatar has not waited long to begin clearing a backlog ofreform measures which may, at last, begin to address the issue of the country'schronic public sector deficits. No one is suggesting that this means wholesalereform of the public sector or that the deficits will suddenly become a thing ofthe past, but Qatar now appears to be adopting the gradualist strategy seen...