Kuwait: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

July 14, 2005

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Kuwait: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed December 22, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper on Kuwait reviews its economic development strategy and uses a variety of analytical methods to highlight Kuwait’s policy challenges and their effectiveness. Kuwait has accumulated large fiscal surpluses, enabling it to build up a sizable asset position for future generations. The fiscal position is also expected to remain comfortable over the medium term, but the recent rapid increase in expenditures raises doubts about the sustainability of the current fiscal stance over the longer term.

Subject: Financial markets, Financial services, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stance, Fiscal sustainability, Interest rate ceilings, Stock markets

Keywords: Ceiling, Ceilings in Kuwait, CR, East Africa, East Asia, Fiscal stance, Fiscal sustainability, GCC country, Global, Interest rate ceilings, ISCR, Kuwait, Lending rate ceiling, Middle East, North Africa, Policy challenge, Rate, Stock market capitalization, Stock markets

Publication Details

Pages:

115
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/234
Stock No:

1KWTEA2005002
ISBN:

9781451822335
ISSN:

1934-7685

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