CAIRO: Qatar’s non-oil economic growth will slow this year as the gas-rich nation cuts spending and after a Saudi-led alliance imposed sanctions that hurt trade, the International Monetary Fund said.
The non-hydrocarbon sector will expand 4.6%, the Washington-based lender said in an emailed statement on Wednesday, compared with 5.6% in 2016 and a 4% prediction in a Bloomberg survey of economists.
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