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Guru Focus "Betting on Kazakhstan's Rich Resources"

Kazakhstan has spent the past few weeks celebrating 20 years of independence. There is much to celebrate. For the past decade, Kazakhstan has performed better than any of the ‘Stans with growth of 8% per year. This growth is twice as much as Turkmenistan and six times more than Uzbekistan. Both Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are more densely populated and maintain larger cities than Kazakhstan. The country’s large growth is not what was expected from the last of the soviet era countries to seek independence. Kazakhstan held out as long as they could, resisting the influence of the west. Now that they are an independent nation they have set their minds to exploiting the land’s vast resources.

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