The International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicts the growth of the Qatari economy in 2006 at 18.7 per cent, said Yousef Hussein Kamal, the Qatari Minister of Finance and acting Minister of Economy and Commerce.
In an interview with the July edition of Qatar Today, the minister, while reiterating that Qatar's gross domestic product (GDP) will double by 2011, has stressed: "Incidentally, this year, the IMF estimated the growth of Qatar for 2006 to be almost 18.7 per cent."
