Kazakhstan

Ten years of water sector reform in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

This report evaluates how well EECCA countries have done in ensuring people’s access to adequate water supply and sanitation services since their Economic, Finance, and Environment Ministers adopted the Almaty Guiding Principles to support such efforts in 2000.

Greening public budgets in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, 2011

This report aims to help Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) environmental administrations to harness the potential benefits of on-going public finance reforms in the region.

First meeting of the Eurasia Group on Corporate Governance for Capital Market Development

This meeting focused on the links between good corporate governance practices, strengthened capital markets and economic growth.

Kazakhstan: Initiatives for the Agribusiness, Retail and Information and Communication Technologies sectors

On 29 and 30 June 2011, three Working Group sessions were held with the OECD at the Grand Park Esil Hotel in Astana, Kazakhstan. Topics discussed included agricultural support measures, investment policy, attraction of modern international retail and human capital development in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). These meetings took place as part of the OECD Sector Competitiveness Strategy project.

Guidelines for performance-based contracts between water utilities and municipalities: Lessons Learnt from Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

This paper presents a summary of the major lessons learnt from the review of five cases of performance-based contracting in the water sector in three countries of Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA), namely Armenia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine.

Guiding Principles for Reform of Environmental Enforcement Authorities in Transition Economies of EECCA (russian)

Developing countries exchange views on green growth policies

Workshop on Green Growth Strategy: OECD Green Growth Strategy from the Perspective of Developing Countries, organised in Seoul, 28 October 2010.

Kazakhstan: Launch of sector competitiveness report

This launch event presented preliminary findings from an OECD report on sector competitiveness in Kazakhstan which suggest that Kazakhstan has a strong competitiveness and FDI potential in key non-energy sectors such as agri-business, fertilizers, logistics, business services and information technology.

Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic: Almaty-Bishkek Regional Road Rehabilitation Project

After the collapse of the former Soviet Union during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the already poor condition of physical transport infrastructure in the Central Asian republics continued to deteriorate.