Questions over spending plan

The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a new five-year National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) – the guiding policy document used by the government – requiring an estimated $26.58 billion in spending and investment, or more than $5.3 billion a year, until 2018. … The plan will succeed the 2009-2013 NSDP, which was estimated to require $15 billion in public- and private-sector investment when it was launched, and will aim to develop sustainable economic growth and alleviate poverty in the Kingdom, the government has said. …

May Kunmakara and Kevin Ponniah
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