The Economic Development Council was established last year under the auspices of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (KazISS). Meetings at this venue are chaired by the Governor of the National Bank of Kazakhstan, Timur Suleimenov. The topic of the third meeting was the optimization and improvement of the efficiency of public finances to ensure the dynamic development of our country.
eGov's Witnesses Financial analyst Andrey Chebotarev considers digitalization projects to have transformed our lives. "Digitalization in terms of eGov has allowed companies to remotely open accounts, provide services, spawned a number of startups such as Kaspi and Freedom, developed online brokerage, online banking. These are actually cool products.
The other day, the president signed a decree "On measures to liberalize the economy." About which norms are the most important and what are the risks of non-compliance with the decree, in an interview with inbusiness.Askar Kysykov, Director of the Talap Center for Applied Research, told kz.
About this in an interview with inbusiness.Oscar Kysykov, Director of the Tales Center for Applied Research, told kz.
It will only get worse, economists and financiers predict. Next year, Kazakhstan will face an acute phase of the crisis, which will peak by 2030. And the 100 billion tenge that the government intends to accumulate in the National Fund by this time will not save us.
The expert offered his vision of solving the issue
National companies of Kazakhstan will again be obliged to sell half of foreign currency earnings. The relevant resolution was prepared by the Government and the National Bank. The measure is aimed at improving the balance of the foreign exchange market, according to the responsible persons. The dollar is getting more expensive, oil is getting cheaper and the tenge is under stress again.
Comments from various economists, financiers and other people from the world of "money" have already been "infused" after Tokayev's message, where he called on everyone to "live within their means." And who does he make these traditional messages for anyway? One of these about the "National Fund", from which it is "impossible" to take, has long been forgotten. And what did he say this time? It didn't work out very well for us in a completely human language, but Dima tried his best.
In one of our previous issues, we talked about the catastrophic debt burden of Kazakhstanis. Among the reasons for the current situation, experts then called the policy of banks, which in previous years were in great honor with the country's leadership, and, as a result, received gigantic financial injections. Financial institutions used it, got rich, gave these funds at interest to customers and got rich again. But it couldn't go on like this anymore.
A new political season has started in Kazakhstan, and the country is waiting for large-scale reforms. The CSTO exercises are taking place in Kyrgyzstan. Kazakhstan and Tajikistan want to enrich their friendship with uranium. Who inculcates extremist views from the outside in Kyrgyzstan, and why does Turkmenistan begin the battle for the harvest with prayer? These and other regional news are in the new season of the program "In the Center of Asia" with Robert Frantsev.
The President presented an ambitious reform program and socio-economic measures for the future. In this issue, an economist and a political scientist analyze the main points of the message.