Kazakhstan - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Nov 2020
News

Kazakh Fintech a Pandemic Bright Spot

Keywords: fintech; IPO; developing markets; COVID-19; Finance

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

Kazakhstan at 3.62 percent. Beyond monetary or fiscal policy changes themselves, students were struck by where the actual dollars were spent and how that differed from nation to nation, says Tannya Cai, who coauthored a working paper on... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

worthless. The farmer, who had no clear title, was unable to fight back. This experience, which demonstrated the importance of understanding the system that leads to poverty in the first place, was reinforced several years ago, when the World Bank sent me to View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

revenue—to reduce global poverty substantially. It can only be done by profitable business. In 1997 the World Bank sent me to Kazakhstan to help the minister of planning think about the country's growth. At the same time I had an... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2009 to 2013. Examples of project-financed investments include the Kashagan oil field development in Kazakhstan (1997), the $1 billion Port of Miami Tunnel (2007), the $54... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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