Kazakhstan

Governor of the National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK), Grigory Marchenko, has renewed his calls for the government to continue recent reforms of the central bank, with the eventual aim... 2013-04-02

BMI View: We forecast Kazakh real GDP growth to pick up to 5.8% in 2013 from an estimated 5.3% in 2012. This is substantially lower than the 7.5% rate of real GDP growth recorded in... 2013-04-02

BMI View: We have revised our year-end forecast for the Kazakh refinancing rate from 5.50% to 5.75% as a result of an uptick in consumer price inflation over the past six months, which... 2013-03-28

The Kazakh government is actively seeking to increase cooperation with Afghanistan in particular regarding anti-terrorism training. Deputy Foreign Minister of Afghanistan Jawed Ludin... 2013-01-23

We forecast Kazakh consumer price inflation to come in slightly stronger in 2013 than in 2012. We forecast average inflation of 6.2%, up from 5.1% in 2012. This will largely come as... 2013-01-23

President Nursultan Nazarbayev has called for the creation of a platform for Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security cooperation during the anniversary meeting of Foreign Ministers of the... 2012-09-24

We hold to our forecast for real GDP in Kazakhstan to come in at 5.8% in 2012 before rising to 6.3% in 2013 down from 7.5% in 2011. We highlight that official forecasts are now in line... 2012-09-24

We forecast consumer price inflation in Kazakhstan to pick up in the final months of 2012, forecasting a full-year average of 5.0% on the back of increasing food prices following a... 2012-09-17

We forecast the Kazakh tenge to average KZT149.00/US$ in 2012 and KZT148.30/US$ in 2013, as compared to KZT146.66/US$ in 2011. So far this year, the tenge has averaged KZT148.40/US$... 2012-07-27

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev met with Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar Salehi at the end of June. The two discussed several issues relating to cooperation between... 2012-07-27