WTO prospects and problems

31.07.2002

The advancing globalisation process embraces more or less all parts of political, social and economic life today, forming a new perception of the notion of the "world community", as a unitary complicated system of contradictions, clashing and reaching accord. 1097 

New problems of the oil production at the Caspian Sea

26.07.2002

Not long ago Kazakhstani mass media reported about the beginning of the project of the associated gas re-injection at Tenghiz oil field. 338 

Some electrical power problems in Russia and Kazakhstan

09.07.2002

Not more than a year ago the Russian government took a decision on reforming the electrical power complex of the country. Today, despite the problems and difficulties, changes in this sectoin of Russian economics are developing. Actually, there is a necessity of the reform, not only in Russia, but also in Kazakhstan. The development of the market economics requires a creation of the appropriate opportunities for the normal functioning of the electrical power complex, which suggests, first of all, a division of the companies of this area into types of activities and an introduction of competition on the wholesale market of electric power. 611 

Investment climate in Kazakhstan

02.07.2002

According to Kazakhstani government, the country's investment potential is "unlimited". If at the beginning of the 1990-s the republic was associated with the "huge" hydrocarbon resources, metals, today, considering the industrial growth and development, the government prepared a new list of priorities in the provision of the state investment support measures, in particular export orientation, import substitution, environment, productive and social structures. With this purpose, the state actively tries to bring the current legislation into order. 529