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The people of Kazakhstan have experienced severe hardship since the country became independent in 1991 following the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Six years of economic decline and rising social distress are leading the government to reassess the situation and formulate a new strategy for development. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the reassessment and to suggest policies that could reverse the decline and help to improve the general well being of the population. We shall be particularly concerned with employment policies and social protection and the way they are inserted into a coherent overall strategy of development.
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See Amartya Sen, ‘Development as Capability Expansion’, in Keith Griffin and John Knight, eds, Human Development and the International Development Strategy for the 1990s, London: Macmillan, 1990.
Amartya Sen, Inequality Re-examined, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
See Keith Griffin, ed., Social Policy and Economic Transformation in Uzbekistan, Geneva: International Labour Organization, 1996, Ch. 1.
The first three points are made by Amartya Sen, Employment, Technology and Development, London: Oxford University Press, 1975.
The fourth point is made by Keith Griffin and Terry McKinley, Implementing a Human Development Strategy, London: Macmillan, 1994, p. 72.
See Keith Griffin and Azizur Rahman Khan, ‘The Transition to Market Guided Economies: Lessons for Russia and Eastern Europe from the Chinese Experience’, in Bernd Magnus and Stephen Cullenberg, eds, Whither Marxism? Global Crises in International Perspective, New York and London: Routledge, 1995.
Keith Griffin, ed., Economic Reform in Vietnam, London: Macmillan, 1998 and Chapter 9 above.
See Armin Bauer, Niña Boschmann and David Green, Women and Gender Relations in Kazakhstan, Manila: Asian Development Bank, 1997, especially Ch. III.
See Michael Bruno, ‘Inflation, Growth and Monetary Control: Non-linear Lessons for Crisis and Recovery’, mimeographed, Washington, DC: World Bank, 1995; also see Michael Bruno, ‘Does Inflation Really Lower Growth?’, Finance and Development, Vol. 32, No. 3, September 1995.
World Bank, From Plan to Market, World Development Report 1996, New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
For an analysis of the role of foreign investment in Kazakhstan so far see Michael Kaser, The Economies of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1997, Ch. 3.
For a good discussion of demographic policy in other Asian countries, and the ways policies contributed to development, see Asian Development Bank, Emerging Asia: Changes and Challenges, Manila: Asian Development Bank, 1997, Ch. 3.
For greater elaboration see Keith Griffin, ‘Poverty: Concepts and Measurement,’ in Keith Griffin, ed., Poverty and the Transition to a Market Economy in Mongolia, London: Macmillan, 1995.
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Griffin, K. (2000). Employment, Poverty and Social Protection in Kazakhstan. In: Studies in Development Strategy and Systemic Transformation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230510418_10
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