Saudi Arabia GDP could surprise on the upside, higher budget deficit seen in 2019: IMF

The budget deficit this year could be 7.9 percent, higher than 2018 on an assumption that oil prices would be lower in 2019 compared to last year, Jihad Azour, director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the IMF, told Reuters.

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