Kazakhstan in Global Value Chains for EdX

1. Kazakhstan
in Global
Value Chains

2. Current situation
74.5%
81.5%
87.1%
Share of export volume for
most exported products of
Kazakhstan, 2018
Top-5 Top-10 Top-20
Most of current
Kazakhstani export
constitutes of raw
resources and materials,
such as oil, crude,
metals, and agriculture
products

3. What is Kazakhstan doing now?
Goal - Top-30 countries through
population income
Economic diversification
Support of export-oriented
companies
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Kazakhstan doesn’t pursue
define politics to join
GVC, however one of the
main goals is to increase
export of manufactured
products, which will
directly increase
participation of country
in GVC.
Kazakhstan has created few
agencies for this purpose

4. What is Kazakhstan doing now?
Goal - Top-30 countries through
population income
Attraction of investments
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Government pursue increase
of foreign direct
investments, especially
transnational
corporations, in order to
attract financial and
human capital,
technologies and etc. In
addition to all of this,
it will also increase
participation of
Kazakhstan in GVC.
Kazakhstan has created
special agencies, such as
KazakhInvest

5. What is Kazakhstan doing now?
Kazakhstan in order to increase trade between
countries, Kazakhstan has joined multiple regional and
global agreements, which already are giving results:
WTO, Eurasian Economic Union (Common Economic Zone)

6. What will happen?
Population income
Increase of technology
transfer, capital flow,
economic complexity,
entrepreneurial activity,
ecological awareness
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When Kazakhstan will
increase its participation
in GVC, it will affect
multiple spheres of
country life.
However, it is important
to mention, that in order
to increase its economic
complexity, Kazakhstan
require to join GVC on
exporting intermediary
products instead of raw
materials

7. Example of Kazakhstani
participation in GVC with
Romania
Kazakhstani energy
resources
$437
mln
Total import of
energy resources
$1 066
mln
Total import for
oil refining
$1 623
mln
Used for oil
refining
$5 117
mln
Output of oil
refining
$8 110
mln