KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘economics’

  • 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, […]