Kazakhstan
IIF: 2020 the climate super-year
The growing importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance to investors (and ultimately to voters) is one of the most important forces shaping the new global economy. CO2 emissions must peak next year or we are in trouble.
Growth of popular unrest in Kazakhstan ‘met by throttling of internet freedom’
Watchdog Freedom House says country has in past year experienced one of world’s worst deteriorations in online liberties.
IIF: IMF meetings, not as bad as you think
Investors and policymakers finished the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank annual general meetings in October on a more positive note than expected.
POWER PLAY IN KAZAKHSTAN: Nazarbayev’s iron rod glimpsed in shadows
As ex-president grabs back powers from successor Tokayev some partly see move as effort to protect oligarch son-in-law Timur Kulibayev, much disliked by many in elite for his track record of ‘successfully failing’.
Russia accounts for 97% of the trade in the EEU
Russia dominates the trade within the Eurasia Economic Union (EEU). In 2018 trade with Russia accounted for 96.9% of all trade within the Eurasian Union; trade among the four smaller countries accounted for the remaining 3.1%.
Central Asia’s electricity network – underpowered and fragmented
Power planners were left with major headaches when the demise of the Soviet Union caused all Central Asian Power System (CAPS) member states to scramble to remake their grids along national lines. However, pan-region ideas are now back in fashion.