Kuwait: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix

June 18, 2012

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Kuwait: Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed September 19, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues and Statistical Appendix paper on Kuwait focuses on recent development in investment companies (ICs) and the business environment in the country. ICs continue to be vulnerable to swings in financial and real estate markets. They continue to have large exposures to domestic, regional, and international equity and real estate markets. Local banks’ lending to ICs declined in 2010–11 owing to banks’ write-offs of ICs loans. The financial situation of many ICs remains precarious, and there are 15 listed investment companies in a dire situation.

Subject: Consumption, Energy prices, Fuel prices, Labor, Labor force, National accounts, Price elasticity, Prices

Keywords: Asset, Consumption, CR, Employment elasticity, Energy prices, Fuel prices, Global, ICs' assets, Investment companies operations, Investment company, ISCR, Kuwait, Labor force, Management practice, Middle East, Price elasticity, Price elasticity

Publication Details

Pages:

86
Volume:

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DOI:

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Issue:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2012/151
Stock No:

1KWTEA2012002
ISBN:

9781475504590
ISSN:

1934-7685

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