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Public spending set to provide less support to Saudi economy

This year’s Saudi government budget envisages the slowest rise in public spending in over a decade. This is welcome from the viewpoint of longer-term fiscal sustainability, but it does mean that government spending is unlikely to provide the same support to growth that it has done in recent years.

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