2007-2008: The new government, new problems in economy

2007 Kazakhstan began with the new government – on January 10 the position of the prime minister of the country was entered by Karim Massimov, long time serving as the assistant to the first president of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and holding a position of the deputy prime minister in an office Akhmetov Daniyal. voxpopuli.kz In February Karim Massimov submitted to the public the three-year plan of action with which he called for more simplified approach in management of economy and sounded some new ideas concerning planning. In particular, it gave an assignment to reduce quantity of priority state programs with...