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Kazakhstan climbing to the top? Will Kazakhstan redefine politics in the post-Soviet arena given its booming economy?
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Encouraging news for investment and GDP
Figures from the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan for the first eight months of 2013 make for encouraging reading. Overall investment into the economy for this period stood at nearly KZT 3.4 trillion, an increase of 7.3% on the same period in 2012. Industrial production for the same period was up by 2% on January-August 2012; mining by 2.9%; and manufacturing by just over 1%. Energy production rose by almost 1%.
Over the same period, from January to August, Kazakhstan’s GDP rose by 5.5%. The forecast for the year from the Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning is for an increase in GDP of 6%. According to the Head of the Statistics Agency, Alikhan Smailov, these figures show that this forecast is, “absolutely realistic”.
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Encouraging news for investment and GDP
Figures from the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan for the first eight months of 2013 make for encouraging reading. Overall investment into the economy for this period stood at nearly KZT 3.4 trillion, an increase of 7.3% on the same period in 2012. Industrial production for the same period was up by 2% on January-August 2012; mining by 2.9%; and manufacturing by just over 1%. Energy production rose by almost 1%.
Over the same period, from January to August, Kazakhstan’s GDP rose by 5.5%. The forecast for the year from the Ministry of Economy and Budget Planning is for an increase in GDP of 6%. According to the Head of the Statistics Agency, Alikhan Smailov, these figures show that this forecast is, “absolutely realistic”.