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The fourth article in the TALAP series examines how the economic gains from AI are distributed across companies, workers and regions. We compare OECD findings with Kazakhstan’s digital initiatives to understand what conditions turn technological infrastructure into higher productivity and new opportunities.
The final piece in the TALAP series brings together findings on investment, energy, technologies, and regional development. A cross-cutting reading of international reports shows why the outcome of Kazakhstan’s new growth model will depend on the state’s ability to align projects, resources, and decisions.
The global economy is simultaneously experiencing an energy shock and a technological investment boom. Their combination is changing the structure of costs, the direction of capital, and the distribution of opportunities across countries. Access to energy, computing infrastructure, data, and skills is becoming one of the key conditions for economic growth.
Material No. 6 in the series “School in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” TALAP Center for Applied Research in partnership with Global Education Futures.
Material No. 7, the final material in the series “School in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” TALAP Center for Applied Research in partnership with Global Education Futures.
Japan is launching a five-year program to develop a national multimodal AI model for robots and autonomous manufacturing: 378.3 billion yen in the first year, annual stage-gate audits, and the transfer of trained weights to the entire ecosystem. We break down the program based on primary sources — and what Kazakhstan should take note of.
Everyone was watching oil, food, and aviation kerosene. But the most durable consequences of the war manifested themselves in other sectors: fertilizers, petrochemicals, aluminum, insurance, and ocean freight. This is a story about why the loudest fears do not always turn out to be the main impact.
The Gulf War passed by Kazakhstan’s export route — but not by its economy. The real blow came not through Hormuz, but through the Black Sea, the CPC, Tengiz, and the limited capacity of alternative routes. This is the story of a country for which a high oil price proved weaker than an infrastructure disruption.
The war became a test for forecasters. Almost everyone identified the key point: the risk for Kazakhstan was not in Hormuz, but in the CPC, Tengiz, and export infrastructure. But beyond that, forecasts diverged. Some focused on GDP, others on the oil price, and still others on the tenge exchange rate. Reality showed that the key variable was not the Brent price, but the country’s ability to produce, export, and monetize oil.
