Stuck in development and economics orthodoxy: Will (epistemic) shift ever happen for the Kazakh technocrats?

• In Event: From Orthodoxy to Opportunity: Economic Policy, Environmental Reform, and Global Finance in East and Central Asia

Brief Overview

The dominant paradigms in development policy in Kazakhstan are neoliberalism and neoclassical economics. The persistence of deindustrialization and structural inequality suggests that the promises of orthodox development models remain unfulfilled.

Authors

• Kuat Akizhanov, CAREC Institute

• Ilhom Abdulloev, CAREC Institute