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Asia-PacificApril 4 2004

Keeping ahead of the neighbours

Prudent management of its oil reserves and a commitment to propriety is making Kazakhstan a regional success story. Chris Pala in Almaty explains.
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A decade of tight banking supervision and oil-fuelled growth has yielded one of the fastest-growing financial sectors in the world. Some banks doubled their assets last year while on average the sector is doubling every two years.

Discussion of Kazakhstan’s banking and financial sector usual entails the phrase “except for the Baltic countries,” the only ones in the former Soviet Union to have done better.

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