KZBlog

An American expat living in Astana, Kazakhstan

Tag archive for ‘inflation’

  • The Haves and the Have Nots

    I wrote a bit earlier about prices of meat and food products in Kazakhstan. However, a lot of less necessary products are already more expensive in Kazakhstan than in the US, and getting more expensive. Perhaps the biggest problem is that although things have improved slightly, there are still two classes of goods in Kazakhstan, […]

  • More About Meat and Food

    Having just posted on importing cattle to solve some of the problems of the meat industry, I was perhaps particularly attentive to meat prices today at the supermarket. I was shocked that any kind of butchered meat, including stir-fry strips/beef stroganoff, gulash/stew meat, and steaks, now cost around 1800 tenge per kilogram (US$ 5.64 per […]