IMF urges Gulf states to open up
The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Horst Koehler, in a meeting of Gulf Arab finance ministers and central bank governors in Bahrain on 12 May, urged the Gulf states to work towards a unified currency.
The leaders of the Gulf states agreed to a unified currency, pegged to the US dollar, at a meeting in December 2000. The IMF meeting was
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