Kuwait: Selected Issues

August 1, 2011

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Kuwait: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

The expenditure multipliers in Kuwait are likely to be high, and mostly operate through capital expenditure. Kuwait’s large state-controlled endowment of natural resource, pegged exchange rate regimes, and relatively open financial accounts are the mainstay. The nominal effective exchange rate diverged from the set pattern owing to higher inflation. Estimates from methodologies for exchange rate assessment indicate mixed results. Macroprudential policies in Kuwait would strengthen the management of systemic risk by reducing the probability and the impact of a financial boom-bust cycle on economic activity.

Subject: Balance of payments, Corporate sector, Current account, Economic sectors, Expenditure, Financial sector policy and analysis, Macroprudential policy, Systemic risk

Keywords: Corporate sector, CR, Current account, Current account norm, Debt, Debt to equity ratio, Expenditure multiplier, Expenditure subcomponent, Global, Government, Government expenditure, ISCR, Macroprudential policy, Systemic risk, Total debt

Publication Details

Pages:

37
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2011/218
Stock No:

1KWTEA2011002
ISBN:

9781462327430
ISSN:

1934-7685

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