Kazakhstan working with the OECD
Since 2008, Kazakhstan has emerged as one of the OECD’s most active partners in the Eurasia region, working with the Organisation to improve the quality of its social, economic and environmental policies and institutions. OECD analysis has played an increasingly important role in shaping policies in Kazakhstan. The country also supports OECD work in the wider region, helping its neighbours draw closer to the OECD and sharing its experience with OECD members and partners.
The Regulation of Goods and Services Markets in Kazakhstan: An International Comparison 2018
This report presents the first-ever results from the application of the OECD’s economy-wide product market regulation (PMR) indicators to Kazakhstan and highlights the scope for sectoral regulatory reforms that could strengthen competition.
Risk Governance Scan of Kazakhstan
30 October 2019
Kazakhstan is developping a national strategy to manage floods, landslides, avalanches, extreme cold and heatwaves. Find out how stakeholder participation is playing a role.
Addressing Industrial Air Pollution in Kazakhstan
30 July 2019
Kazakhstan's current system of environmental pollution payments for industrial operators is highly controversial. This report provides reform guidelines drawing from air pollution regulations in OECD member countries.
Promoting Clean Urban Public Transportation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Moldova
15 October 2019
Kazakhstan is developing an energy-efficient local public transport system to combat pollution, improve mobility and stimulate domestic production of modern transport vehicles.
Kazakhstan at a Glance
22/01/2015 Kazakhstan Country Programme
21/11/2018 MoU OECD & Kazakhstan co-operation
Strategic areas of work:
- competition, state ownership and privatisations
- competitiveness
- education and skills
- fiscal affairs
- green growth and environment policy
- health, employment and social inclusion
- investment and business climate
- public governance and anti-corruption
- trade
Key topics
- Access to information
- Agricultural co-operatives
- Agricultural policy
- Central administration
- Civil service reform
- Clean energy technology
- Clean urban public transportation
- Clean urban public transportation-investment
- Competitiveness
- Connectivity and freight
- Decentralisation
- Education
- Effective, strategic & accountable state
- Gender policy
- Green finance flows
- Health systems
- Inclusive labour markets
- Industrial air pollution
- Innovation policy
- Innovation & intellectual property
- Integrity
- Investment policy
- Market regulation
- Mining investment
- Multi-dimensional development
- National health accounts
- Open government
- Public service delivery
- Reforming Kazakhstan
- Regional development
- Regulatory policy
- Revenue statistics
- Risk governance
- Skills & occupational standards
- Skills in petrochemistry & chemistry
- SME and entrepreneurship policy
- Stakeholder participation through public councils
- Tax transparency & information
- Urban policy
- Water
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Participation in OECD Bodies
Kazakhstan participates in the work of many OECD Committees, Working Parties and other bodies, including actively in a dozen of them. For instance, the country has become a Participant in the Competition Committee (2016), the Committee on Statistics and Statistical Policy (2016), and the OECD Working Party on State Ownership and Privatisation Practices (2016), and an Associate in the Investment Committee(for the work related to the Declaration). It has also joined the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit-Shifting (BEPS) Project (2016), an initiative involving over 100 countries in an effort to tackle tax avoidance strategies that exploit gaps and mismatches in tax rules to artificially shift profits to low or no-tax locations.
Engagement
2017 Kazakhstan became the first country in the region to host the OECD Eurasia Week
2013-present Co-chair of the Revenue Management and Spending workstream of the Policy Dialogue on Natural Resources
2016-18 Co-chair of the GREEN Action Task Force, currently member of the Bureau
2012-16 Co-chair of the OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme’s Central Asia Initiative
Participation in OECD activities and projects
- Anti-Corruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme
- Green Action Task Force
- OECD Development Centre
- OECD Global Forum on Agriculture (GFA)
- Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purpose (GFTEOI).
The Country Programme & beyond
In January 2015, the OECD and Kazakhstan embarked on a two-year programme of structured co-operation, the OECD Kazakhstan Country Programme, which supported Kazakhstan’s reform efforts across a wide range of policy domains. The Country Programme was extended until the end of 2018. It has provided the framework for carrying out several dozen OECD projects with the country and has provided an opportunity for Kazakhstan to increase its participation in a number of OECD committees and their subsidiary bodies. Kazakhstan has also adhered to a growing number of OECD instruments under the Programme. The new agreement, which runs until end-2022, provides a framework for further co-operation and reflects the commitment of both the OECD and Kazakhstan to build on the success of the Country Programme.
Contact us
Mr. Gregory Lecomte
Country Manager for Kazakhstan
[email protected]
