Qatar to be fastest growing GCC economy

Qatar will remain the fastest growing of all GCC sovereigns in 2013, driven by the government’s huge capital investment programme, Fitch Ratings has forecast.

Qatar will remain the fastest growing of all GCC sovereigns [2] in 2013, driven by the government’s huge capital investment programme, Fitch Ratings has forecast.

Growth is set to rise [3] as the fiscal stimulus would be triggered by a combination of healthy bank lending rates and buoyant consumer and business confidence, Fitch said in its first quarterly GCC Sovereign Credit Overview.

Qatar will have the fastest growing economy in the GCC, according to Fitch Ratings