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KUWAIT, April 7 (Reuters) - Tunisia plans to sell a 10 to 15 percent stake in several state-run banks to raise around 1.3 billion Tunisian dinars ($668.66 million), the country's finance minister said on Tuesday.
The North African state also expects to receive $1 billion in loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund this year, Minister Slim Chaker said at a finance conference in Kuwait.
Tunisia has been under pressure from international lenders to reduce its fiscal deficit and cut public spending through a series of politically sensitive reforms to subsidies. ($1 = 1.9442 Tunisian dinars) (Reporting by Ahmed Hagagy in Kuwait and Tarek Amara in Tunis; Writing by Patrick Markey; Editing by Hugh Lawson)