The Central Bank of Kazakhstan kept the base interest rate at 16.75% per annum. information about it published on the editor’s press service website.
“The Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan has decided to keep the base rate at 16.75% annualized, with a corridor of +/- 1 point,” the report said.
In the first half of January, the Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan Alibek Kuantirov knowledgeablethat the country’s GDP increased by 3.1% last year. This is 0.9 percentage point lower than in 2021.
Analysts from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in the second half of February sent It is estimated that the economies of Central Asian countries will grow the fastest in 2023-2024. On average, the GDP volumes of these regional states will increase by 4.9% and 5.4% in 2023 and subsequent years, respectively.
At the end of March, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, declarationthat the country’s major commodity trade should pay higher taxes and the country’s tax policy should go in that direction.