Saudi crown prince says more than 20 companies to be privatized in 2019 | Reuters

Saudi crown prince says more than 20 companies to be privatized in 2019 | Reuters:

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said his country will privatize more than 20 companies in 2019, helping the government’s strategy to diversify revenues away from oil. 

“In 2019, we will have more than 20 services that will be privatized, most of them in water, agriculture, energy and some of it in sports”, the prince said in an interview with Bloomberg published on Friday.

In April, the Saudi government said it aims to generate 35 billion to 40 billion riyals ($9 billion to $11 billion) in non-oil revenues from its privatization program by 2020 and create up to 12,000 jobs.