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World Bank Research in Kazakhstan

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World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation
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Developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty, according to a new World Bank report launched at the Bank's Annual Meetings in Singapore.
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Kazakhstan - Getting Competitive, Staying Competitive: The Challenge of Managing Kazakhstan's Oil Boom (Multimedia) - (March 2004)
Kazakhstan has made substantial progress in its economic transition and faces a potentially bright future thanks to its oil wealth. The challenge is to increase the country's competitiveness and expand the benefi ts of growth, while avoiding the economic and social risks typically associated with oil wealth.This report, which is the product of extensive consultations between the GOK and the World Bank, does not try to provide unique answers to the questions raised above. Rather, it presents a framework that can be used by Kazakhstan's policy-makers and stakeholders to establish priorities and trade-offs among the various options, and draws on international experience to illustrate key points.
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Livestock Sector: Supporting its Revival - (Jun. 2004)
Kazakhstan's livestock sector has a significant, but under-exploited development potential. Livestock production has been a key economic activity in Kazakhstan for centuries and continues to be a major source of employment, food and income for the rural population.
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Innovations in Fisheries Management - (Jun. 2004)
The fisheries sector has significant value in terms of income, growth, employment, agricultural exports, opportunities, and biodiversity. This value is not always reflected in official statistics. The reason for this is that fish are different from other agricultural products. They are largely invisible in the wild, they cross national and international boundaries, and it is difficult or impossible for individuals to enforce property rights over them.
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Kazakhstan: Rangelands in Transition - (Jan. 2005)
Despite Kazakhstan being the sixth largest country worldwide in terms of the size of its grasslands, many of the 6 million people who depend on these resources for their livelihood, live in poverty. The report reviews policies to reverse detrimental effects on pastures, which have severely deteriorated in the last decade.
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Reforming the Public Sector Wage System
This paper provides policy options to mitigate the fiscal impact of planned wage increases in Kazakhstan, and presents reforms in the wage system to ensure that wage increases will also lead to qualitative improvements in the performance of the civil (and public) service.
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