The European Union may need to scale down plans to boost growth and mitigate the social impact of a slowdown if it fails to quickly agree on a long-term budget, European officials said on Monday ...

Government spending for Qatar’s ambitious projects totaling over $200bn will continue even after the staging of the FIFA World Cup games in 2022, according to a Qatar Chamber official.

A new wave of spending is expected on the development of Qatar’s free zones and logistics centres to further boost inflows of foreign capital, according to the Oxford Business Group.

Italy's two anti-establishment parties on Friday promised to ramp up spending in a programme for a new coalition government, putting them on a collision course with the European Union ...

Republican leaders in the House of Representatives hope to unveil soon the product of long negotiations over a $1tn spending bill.

Kuwait on Monday announced a state budget for the year ending on March 31, 2019, that projects spending at 20bn dinars ($66.7bn) and revenues at 15bn dinars.

Rising energy prices and efforts to diversify government revenue may see Qatar’s 2018 budget swing into surplus

Budget spending (expenditure) has been set at QR203.2bn in 2018, up 2.4% on the current financial year, figures released in Doha on Tuesday showed.

Qatar, blockaded by three of its Gulf neighbours since June, is capable of supporting its banks with assets in the country’s vast sovereign wealth fund and foreign currency reserves, the central bank governor said.

Qatar General Electricity & Water Corporation (Kahramaa) is planning to spend more than QR5bn on direct purchases from manufacturers in Qatar, expanding the presence of ‘Made in Qatar’ products ...

US President Donald Trump wants lawmakers to slash healthcare and food assistance programs for the poor as they cut $3.6 trillion in government spending over 10 years ...

Qatar’s budget deficit may fall to 5% of the country’s GDP this year, or $8.7bn, and then “shrinking further” through to 2019, mainly due to “increasing hydrocarbon receipts and the ongoing consolidation” of current spending.