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Saudi budget: keeping a tight grip on the purse strings

The Saudi 2021 budget shows that the recent improvement in the oil market hasn’t swayed officials to alter their plans to keep fiscal policy tight in the coming years. This will help to keep the dollar peg intact and limit any further rise in government debt, but at the expense of holding back the economic recovery.

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