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.
More than 70% of Kazakhstanis perceive China positively. This was told by the specialists of the Center for Applied Research "TALAP". They conducted a public opinion poll and analyzed the results in comparison with previous years' reports.
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.
We will become poorer than before the pandemic
The statistics of the largest of them show that trillions of tenge are spent out of control.
The fourth material concludes TALAP’s first series of publications on strategic foresight. While the previous documents presented the global context, the development of the approach and the results of the pilot measurement, this infographic captures the architecture of the method itself: how expert materials are transformed into a structured basis for decision-making.
The next stage was a practical test of the developed approach using materials from the first quarter of 2026. TALAP processed more than 300 publications, posts and comments by economic experts in order to test the full cycle of the Expert Signal Radar.
After studying international practice, TALAP began developing its own approach to strategic foresight in Kazakhstan. Its main purpose is to connect expert observations, facts from the economic agenda and possible consequences of change into a single analytical framework.
Global governance practice is gradually moving away from a model in which decisions are made only after a crisis has already become visible. Governments, international organizations and major companies are increasingly focusing on the early identification of change, testing decisions against different scenarios and preparing courses of action before a situation reaches a critical stage.
The Center for Applied Research "TALAP" presented the findings of a series of strategic discussions and research. Experts warn: without rules and measurements, the implementation of AI in schools could exacerbate inequality and reduce the quality of basic skills.
Digital tenge will be used to pay for at least 100 large projects in Kazakhstan. We are talking about projects funded from the budget and the National Fund. This became known during a government meeting. Experts admit that, on the one hand, such a currency will help control government spending. On the other hand, there are risks of data leakage. When are they planning to fully implement the currency? And how much do we need it?
