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Kazakh economists told a correspondent of the Kazinform agency how the return of Donald Trump to the White House may affect the tenge exchange rate in the future.
At the end of last year, the dollar exchange rate in the exchangers of Kazakhstan exceeded 530 tenge.
Chinese marketplaces are killing Kazakhstan's SMEs-publications with such headlines have periodically appeared in local media over the past year. In Russian, by the way, too. What is behind the information attacks on Chinese platforms, with what results does e-commerce end the year in the country, and what problems should actually be solved? Read about this in today's TAJ.report analysis.
Only 16% of Kazakhstanis consider themselves healthy. A unique study on the health of Kazakhstanis was conducted by the TALAP Center for Applied Research. In Almaty, people move less and sleep less, in Astana, they are more stressed and eat fast food, in Shymkent, there is a greater emphasis on fruits and vegetables, but only 7.3% of Kazakhstanis regularly visit a doctor for preventive examinations.
A major exclusive in the early days of 2024 – an interview given by the head of state, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, to the Egemen Qazaqstan newspaper. The president devoted part of the detailed conversation to discussing a painful topic for the Republic - domestic violence. According to Tokayev, he "supports the tightening of punishment for domestic violence."
The third material documents a practical test of the approach against the economic agenda of Q1 2026.
The fourth material concludes the series on the development of the TALAP Center’s Expert Signal Radar. The infographic shows how expert data move from the initial corpus to signal nodes, the radar, cascades, and management interpretation.
