Kuwait Staff Report for the 2014 Article IV Consultation

This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic activity in Kuwait picked up in 2014. Non-oil growth is projected at 3.5 percent driven by a combination of continued increase in domestic consumption and some pick-up in government capital spending and private investment. Flat oil productio...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund Middle East and Central Asia Dept
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2014
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports
Subjects:
Oil
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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653 |a Oil 
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653 |a Investments: Energy 
653 |a Exports and Imports 
653 |a Other Public Investment and Capital Stock 
653 |a Mortgages 
653 |a National accounts 
653 |a National income 
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653 |a Income economics 
653 |a Depository Institutions 
653 |a National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: Infrastructures 
653 |a General Aggregative Models: General 
653 |a Oil prices 
653 |a Public investment spending 
653 |a Labour 
653 |a Micro Finance Institutions 
653 |a Aggregate Factor Income Distribution 
653 |a Petroleum industry and trade 
653 |a Expenditure 
653 |a Banks and Banking 
653 |a Prices 
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653 |a Statistics 
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520 |a This 2014 Article IV Consultation highlights that economic activity in Kuwait picked up in 2014. Non-oil growth is projected at 3.5 percent driven by a combination of continued increase in domestic consumption and some pick-up in government capital spending and private investment. Flat oil production would keep the overall real GDP growth positive at 1.3 percent. The average inflation rate is forecast to remain at about 3 percent. The current account and fiscal surpluses are expected to remain high. The medium-term economic outlook is favorable. Non-oil GDP growth is expected to pick up to 4 to 5 percent in the medium term, supported by government investment in infrastructure and the oil sector, and by consumption