The Kazakhstan Country Partnership Framework (CPF) 2020-25 aims to accelerate the transformation of Kazakhstan into a modern society with a knowledge-based, diversified, and private-sector driven economy. A new CPF is being developed in consultation with counterparts and civil society to shape a new investment program and quality technical assistance to the Government for 2026–2030.
Since 2003, the World Bank has significantly extended its Advisory Services and Analytics (ASA) provided under the Joint Economic Reform Program (JERP). The JERP is structured around the strategic priorities of the Government focusing on development gaps in growth, governance, and the public service delivery agenda. The program is financed by the Government and designed to ensure strong government ownership while enhancing the Bank’s contribution to the country’s development in a way that goes beyond funding. The areas of focus and scope of the economic research program are determined by the Government in consultation with the Bank.
Since 2003, more than 100 tasks have been completed, including 20 high-level brainstorming sessions that provided direct input to the Government’s ambitious reform agenda. Key JERP-supported results in recent years include, among others, technical assistance leading to the drafting of the new Investment Policy Concept to 2025, along with the preparation of an Investment Policy Action Plan; support for the development of the new Local Self-Governance Law; assistance in drafting the Agglomeration Law, which was adopted in November 2022; and support in formulating a minimum wage methodology, adopted by the Government in March 2024, etc.
Key Bank-financed ASA activities over the past several years have included the: Kazakhstan Public Finance Review; Kazakhstan Mining Sector Diagnostic; Equitable Human Capital Development study; Country Economic Memorandum; the Climate Change and Development Report; and Financial System Stability Assessment Program, the Kazakhstan Poverty Assessment.
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