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• Getting a Car in Kazakhstan

  A dear friend of mine recently bought a car here and I do occasionally get emails about driving in Kazakhstan for foreigners, so here is a basic rundown of what you need to do to register a new car. Buying a car wasn’t that much different from buying a car in the States. However one […]

  3/30/11 • (3)

• The Economic Costs of Bureaucracy

  A few days ago, I talked about the ecological costs of bureaucracy in Kazakhstan. Today, just for fun I worked up some extremely rough estimates of the economic costs of bureaucracy. According to the Agency for Statistics, the total population of the country on 1 Dec 2010 was 16,417,655 people. Let’s assume that every year, […]

  1/13/11 • (2)

• The Costs of Bureaucracy

  Coincidentally, just as the comment thread on Surveys of Expats about Life in Kazakhstan turned to bureaucracy, I came across a report on the automatization of government services for people and e-gov. According to research (I believe done by the Center for Services for the Population or TSON), over a period of ten months in […]

  1/09/11 • (6)

• E-Government in KZ

  NewEurasia.net has an article up that scratches the surface of problems with e-government in Kazakhstan: How Responsive is Kazakhstan’s e-Government. I left a comment that pretty much sums up my feelings on what needs to be done to improve the system: The key issues for e-government are, as you say, accessibility. Does everyone have Internet? […]

  10/04/10 • (Comments Off on E-Government in KZ)