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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/saudi-king-boosting-social-fund.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has ordered billions of riyal be poured into a social development fund" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-saudi-king-boosting-social-fund.jpg" alt="King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia has ordered billions of riyal be poured into a social development fund"/></a></p>
<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s king has ordered billions of riyal be poured into a development fund that helps people buy homes, get married and start businesses, in the wake of the unrest spreading around the Middle East.</p>
<p>The measure was one of several announced by the monarch, who has returned home after a three-month absence during which he underwent medical treatment in the United States.</p>
<p>King Abdullah ordered that 40 billion riyal &#8211; about £6.6 billion &#8211; be injected into the country&#8217;s development fund which nearly doubles the original budget.</p>
<p>Other new measures include a 15% cost of living adjustment for government workers and a year of unemployment assistance for youths.</p>
<p>The steps could be meant to shore up popular support and fend off unrest, as protests hit neighbouring Bahrain, the first nation in the oil-rich Gulf to experience the region&#8217;s anti-government upheaval.</p>
<p>Much of the unrest is linked to poverty as well as demands for more political freedom.</p>
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