Qatar has experienced a multi-year slowdown in credit growth and, in contrast to the past decade or so, lending is now expanding at a weaker pace than in the rest of the Gulf. We expect domestic credit conditions to remain tight, despite a loosening of monetary policy, and credit growth to stay subdued, holding back Qatar’s non-hydrocarbon GDP growth over the next year or so.
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