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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.
"When developing laws and various rules, financial and industrial groups and large businesses have a great influence on decision-making. This is typical for almost all countries, including developed ones. But when this happens behind the scenes, in conditions of complete legal instability, a wide field for corruption is created. In the civilized world, politics is not formed behind closed doors," Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said last spring, speaking to deputies.
A regular meeting of the economic club was held at the site of the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, where the draft National Development Plan "Kazakhstan-2029", developed by the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan (ASPIR), was discussed. The Agency has done a lot of work on the formation of this strategy, however, experts expressed interest in reviewing and finalizing it.
The sociological service of the TALAP Center conducted a unique study on the health of Kazakhstani people.
The war became a test for forecasters. Almost everyone identified the key point: the risk for Kazakhstan was not in Hormuz, but in the CPC, Tengiz, and export infrastructure. But beyond that, forecasts diverged. Some focused on GDP, others on the oil price, and still others on the tenge exchange rate. Reality showed that the key variable was not the Brent price, but the country’s ability to produce, export, and monetize oil.
The first material opens the TALAP series and sets the global context: strategic foresight is becoming part of contemporary management practice.
The second material shows how TALAP is turning the global practice of strategic foresight into its own tool for Kazakhstan.
