| For the second time in seven years, Kazakhstan will tap its National Fund as one way to help sustain its economy, which has become a victim of the global drop in oil prices. “One of the main tasks of the fund is to ensure the stability of our economy against external shocks, which include a fall in world prices for natural resources,” President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Nov. 11 in a televised address to the nation.
He said his government will use $3 billion a year from 2015 through 2017 “to develop transport, energy, industrial and social infrastructure,” but he also stressed that the expenditures will be accompanied by unspecified “structural reforms” to Kazakhstan’s economy...............................................Full Article: Source
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