Kuwait budget records KD12.9bn in 9-month revenues

Kuwait's state budget has reported KD12.9bn in revenues by December 31, 2009, the end of the first nine months of country's 2009-2010 fiscal year, Kuna has reported. The revenues are 59.8% higher than the KD8.074bn projected for the current fiscal year as a whole, but are 30.5% less than the KD18.554bn of the previous fiscal year. Oil revenues rose to KD12.179bn, up 75.9% from the previously estimated KD 6.924bn, while non-oil revenues of the period amounted to KD724.323m.