Saudi Arabia’s 2015 budget statement doesn’t provide a clear steer about the path for actual government spending. Reading between the lines, it looks like the authorities will keep spending restrained this year, but there’s no sign that they will tighten fiscal policy aggressively. As a result, we think Saudi Arabia could run a budget deficit of around 10% of GDP this year.
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