Kazakhstan : Taking Advantage of Trade and Openness for Development

This report is structured as follows. Chapter one analyzes the performance of Kazakhstan s trade. Chapter two presents an overview of recent developments in Kazakhstan regional and international trade integration. Chapter three examines in detail k...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:
AIR
GDP
TAX
WTO
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/876291468040461486/Kazakhstan-Taking-advantage-of-trade-and-openness-for-development-second-report-under-the-studies-on-international-and-regional-trade-integration
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26850
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Summary:This report is structured as follows. Chapter one analyzes the performance of Kazakhstan s trade. Chapter two presents an overview of recent developments in Kazakhstan regional and international trade integration. Chapter three examines in detail key issues related to market access, focusing on non-tariff measures and trade facilitation and logistics. Chapter four examines the services sector and offers a roadmap for actions to enhance its competitiveness. Chapter five addresses building institutional capacity for the trade and competitiveness agenda. The report s recommendations are summarized in the following table. In order of the four main messages of the report, they cover balancing regional and international integration efforts, measures to improve access to inputs and export markets by reducing non-tariff barriers and through trade facilitation measures, raising the quality and efficiency of the services sector, and strengthening institutional capacity to implement an effective trade policy and competitiveness agenda.