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Representatives of the sector of short-term loans to payday are sounding the alarm, saying that stricter regulation will lead to the mass surrender of licenses. According to financiers, banks are not interested in customers who need small amounts. The problems in the MFI market were discussed by experts, according to Zakon.kz .
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According to the national statistics bureau, the number of registered individual entrepreneurs (IE) in the country decreased by 2.4% in a month, while the number of entrepreneurs grew by 8.5% throughout 2023. The "Voice of the People" editorial team decided to explore how the decline in individual entrepreneurship is related to the introduction of universal income declaration. Could this mean that entrepreneurs will move to the shadow business or close their projects?
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.
By Decree of the President No. 1311 of 9 June 2026, the Nationwide Strategy for Large-Scale Digitalization and the Comprehensive Deployment of AI Technologies, “Digital Qazaqstan,” was approved until 2029. TALAP analyzed the document: what goals and indicators it sets, how it differs from previous programs, and what it means for citizens, business, and the state.
This is the first paper in the Kazakhstan Economic Radar, Q2 2026 series. It explains how the radar is constructed and how it can be used.
This is the second paper in the Kazakhstan Economic Radar, Q2 2026 series. It presents the issues being discussed by the country's economic experts.
This is the third paper in the Kazakhstan Economic Radar, Q2 2026 series. It presents the Institutional Radar, based on an analysis of government economic policy.
