All goods produced in Kazakhstan can be very competitive internationally, minister says
NUR-SULTAN – In his recent wide-ranging interview with the Kazakhstanskaya Pravda newspaper, Bakhyt Sultanov, Minister of Trade and Integration of Kazakhstan since June 2019, shared his views on efforts to regulate domestic trade with a view of stimulating it, the country’s export potential and measures to support it, as well as the relations with Russia…
Government proceeds with privatising state property, says vice minister of finance
Let us accept as a given: no state will give up its role in a market economy. Even guided by the idea of encouraging entrepreneurship, even going for large-scale privatisation to define small and medium-sized owners. Even though the scale of state enterprise becomes smaller, it will remain a structural element of the economy. We…
Kazakhstan’s Modernisation 3.0 is to create a completely new, non-commodity economic model, minister says
The country has decided on a strategy: we need a new model for economic growth that will ensure global competitiveness; we need to expand the business environment and improve the conditions for mass entrepreneurship; we need to stabilise economic growth for the long term. What will be Kazakhstan’s response to external and internal geopolitical and…
Economic development shall be considered along with urban planning, says Kazakh architect
ASTANA – Urban planning as an applied science and spatial planning has recently become popular in Kazakhstan. Meanwhile, the practical neglect of urban planning objectives and possibilities inevitably leads to economic losses. Amanzhol Chikanayev, author of the idea of agglomerating territories, member of the architectural council under President Nursultan Nazarbayev, honorary architect of Kazakhstan and…
