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A working version of the research report “The Carbon Farming Industry in Kazakhstan: Unlocking Opportunities”, prepared jointly with the International Center for Competition Law and Policy of the BRICS at the Higher School of Economics and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
On August 29, 2023, the TALAP Center for Applied Research Public Foundation presented the research "Business Climate of the New Time" at the forum "Stagnation or the New 90s" in Astana: how will SMEs develop?"
For over three decades, China has amazed the world with the rapid pace of its economic growth. In the 70s, the Chinese economy was more agrarian and based on a command-administrative system, but as a result of consecutive market reforms, the economic landscape of the Celestial Empire has dramatically transformed.
More than 70% of Kazakhstanis perceive China positively. This was told by the specialists of the Center for Applied Research "TALAP". They conducted a public opinion poll and analyzed the results in comparison with previous years' reports.
The purpose of the study is to calculate the perception index of China in Kazakhstan in 2023, analyse its dynamics since 2020, and identify the determining factors based on the public opinion survey.
We are glad to announce the update and relaunch of the site openbudget.kz ! The portal is dedicated to increasing transparency and accessibility of data on the budget of Kazakhstan. Updated website OpenBudget.kz It provides users with even more opportunities to analyze budget data, which makes the process of monitoring government spending more accessible and transparent. Analytical articles and notes on public finance issues will be published periodically on the portal.
The fourth piece concludes TALAP’s first series of publications on strategic foresight. If the previous documents presented the global context, the development of the approach, and the results of the pilot test, this infographic captures the method architecture itself: how expert data move from the initial corpus to managerial interpretation.
The next stage was a practical test of the developed approach using materials from the first quarter of 2026. TALAP processed more than 300 publications, posts and comments by economic experts in order to test the full cycle of the Expert Signal Radar.
After studying international practice, TALAP began developing its own approach to strategic foresight in Kazakhstan. Its main purpose is to connect expert observations, facts from the economic agenda and possible consequences of change into a single analytical framework.
