Lower oil prices have significantly affected the Kuwaiti government’s fiscal position. Oil and gas exports make up 90% of public spending. The recent decline in energy prices has resulted in lower oil export revenues, which are projected to fall from $112.9bn in 2012 to $51bn in 2016, according to December 2015 data from the IMF. Tumbling oil...
One of the major achievements of successive Kuwaiti governments has been the successful management of the wealth generated by its largest asset, oil. Starting in the 1970s and 1980s Kuwaiti leaders consolidated these resources under the ownership of publically owned entities, and the public coffers have benefitted enormously. Indeed, the...
By mid-2016 the period of slow economic growth and falling government revenues that kicked off across the GCC in 2014 was widely thought to have reached an inflection point. The region’s economy is expected to gradually firm up over the medium term. In Kuwait, which like most of its neighbours experienced economic contraction in 2014 and 2015...
To what extent does the fund coordinate with other funds and institutions to prevent overlaps and also create synergies?
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