Kazakhstan forecasts 6 percent GDP growth in 2013
Real GDP growth in Kazakhstan is forecasted at 6 percent in 2013, 6.1 percent in 2014 and 7.6 percent in 2015, Kazakh Economic Development and Trade Minister Erbolat Dosayev said at a session of the parliament's lower chamber, Kazinform news agency reported.
Inflation rate in 2012-2015 is expected at 6.8 percent, Dosayev
said.
According to the minister, forecast of Kazakhstan's social and
economic development is based on the oil prices forecast on the
world market ($90 per barrel in 2013 and $88.5 per barrel in
2014-2015).
Kazakhstan's state budget expenditures are planned at $6.200
trillion tenge in 2013, 6.5 trillion tenge in 2014 and at 7.100
trillion tenge in 2015 ($1=150.65 tenge), Dosayev said.
According to the minister, the main priorities of the state budget
expenditures in 2013-2015 are following: increasing employment,
regional development, human capital growth, improving of the living
conditions of the population, industrial and innovative development
and complete fulfillment of social obligations of the state.
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