Saturday, January 17, 2009

Arabs Lost 2.5 Trillion Dollars From Credit Crunch: Kuwait

Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah

From AFP:

KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — Arab investors have lost 2.5 trillion dollars from the credit crunch, Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammad al-Sabah, whose country hosts an Arab economic summit next week, said on Friday.

"The Arab world has lost 2.5 trillion dollars in the past four months" as a result of the global financial crisis, Sheikh Mohammad told a press conference following a joint meeting of Arab foreign and finance ministers in Kuwait.

He also said that about 60 percent of development projects "have either been postponed or cancelled" by the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states because of the global meltdown.

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