The plunge in oil prices over the past year has forced Saudi Arabia to dip into its foreign exchange reserves, but one point that is often overlooked is that the Kingdom’s external position had been deteriorating for some time before that. In particular, the emergence of significant capital outflows means that FX reserves have been called upon far earlier than might have otherwise been the case.
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