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Saudi Arabia Doubles Deficit Forecast For 2025
...reseeable future, but strong economic growth in recent years means that as a share of GDP, the deficits are expected to be considerably less than over the 2014-2020 period. By way of comparison, this year’s forecast $65.3bn deficit is comparable with 2017’s $63.6bn figure. But while the 2017 deficit was eq...
Volume: 68Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2025 -
Saudi Arabia Revises Down Mid-Term Revenue Expectations
...ands at $96.20/B, with speculation that this means the kingdom needs to target an oil price of around $100/B (MEES, 27 September). What this ignores is that Saudi Arabia has only achieved a surplus once since 2014 – during 2022 when Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted oil markets (see chart 1) – and ye...
Volume: 67Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2024 -
Saudi Steps Up Spending In Bid To Boost Economy
...e 2014 oil price collapse, the Saudi government has more recently turned to debt markets. This enabled foreign reserves to rise to an 18-month high of $510bn at end-August, though this is still well down on its August 2014 peak of $746bn (see chart MEES, 5 October). Having raised $21.5bn in 20...
Volume: 61Issue: 40Published at Fri, 05 Oct 2018 -
IMF Praises Iran’s Planned Reforms, But Implementation Is Questionable
...) 2013 January 42 July 54 2014 June 62 2016 Ju...
Volume: 59Issue: 40Published at Fri, 07 Oct 2016 -
Qatar Planning $35Bn US Investments
...isse and other big-name European industry and financial institutions. Under Shaikh Hamad, QIA was seen as a foreign policy tool to boost Qatar’s influence and prestige (MEES, 7 November 2014). But the diversification towards the US coincides with some unconfirmed reports that QIA is undergoing some ki...
Volume: 58Issue: 40Published at Fri, 02 Oct 2015 -
Iraqi Kurdistan Eyes New Oil Deal With Baghdad
...dependence in selling its oil. He also called for the establishment of a productive economic system in the province that could generate non-oil revenues. An agreement signed by the KRG and the Iraqi federal government in December 2014 which had the potential to lead to an end to years of wrangling over Ku...
Volume: 58Issue: 40Published at Fri, 02 Oct 2015 -
Kuwait Boosts Surplus Despite Falling Revenue
...KUWAIT Kuwait increased its budget surplus by 6% to almost KD5bn (KD4.96bn, $17.6bn) for the financial year ending March 2014. This came despite lower oil prices, and thus oil revenue, as the country slashed spending by over 2% to KD18.9bn ($67.1bn). Oil revenues fell by 2.3% to KD...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Is Iran’s Economy Turning The Corner?
...rst quarter of the current fiscal year (starting on 21 March 2014), compared to the same three-month period a year earlier, CBI preliminary figures show. The growth came after two years of stagflation with GDP which contracting by 4.1% over the year to March 2013. President Hassan Rohani, while in Ne...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
$1.1B Jordan, Lebanon Cash
...JORDAN/LEBANON Jordan is to receive a total of $633mn in four grants from USAID. The largest grant, worth $436mn, will support prioritized development projects listed under the state budget law for 2014. The remaining three grants will be used “to improve basic services, boost economic de...
Volume: 57Issue: 40Published at Fri, 03 Oct 2014 -
Iranian Economy Shrinks By 5.4%
...bn in the year to 20 March 2014, from $50bn a year earlier, according to the NDF Deputy Director Qasim Hosseini. By law 20% of oil revenue is usually allocated to the NDF, which is intended to finance major development projects. In addition to the NDF, the Iranian government with pa...
Volume: 56Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2013 -
Damage To Syrian Economy Tops $20Bn – Officials
...me buildings and infrastructure and that a further S£50bn ($365mn) have been allocated in the 2014 draft budget to continue reconstruction activities. Prime Minister Wail al-Halqi last month called for austerity and rationalization of current and investment expenditure in the 2014 budget an...
Volume: 56Issue: 40Published at Fri, 04 Oct 2013