Qatar's net external assets will be sufficiently higher than the current account receipts in 2014 with government expenditure set to weaken in the next four years to maintain a relatively "strong" fiscal surplus, according to global credit rating agency Standard and Poor's (S&P).
"We expect government spending to slow to an average of 6% for 2014-2017 to enable the government to maintain a relatively strong fiscal surplus averaging about 5% of GDP over the period. We no longer include an estimate of government investment income from the Qatar Investment Authority in the government balance," the rating agency said...............................................Full Article: Source
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