Kuwait’s cabinet approved on Thursday a draft budget for the next fiscal year starting in April with a projected 3.2 percent rise in spending from the plan for the current year.
The draft 2014/15 budget was approved at a cabinet meeting and still needs parliamentary approval, state news agency KUNA said.
The plan, which was originally published last week, said the major oil producer expects to spend KD21.86 billion ($77.4 billion) in the 2014/15 fiscal year, up by KD681.9 million from the 2013/14 plan.
That is well below the average annual spending rise of 19.2 percent seen in the last decade to 2012/13, according to Reuters calculations based on official data.
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