Kazakh President Dismisses Government for Failures on Growth
- Ministers failed to improve living standards, Nazarbayev says
- President acts after calling government ‘cowards’ on banking
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Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev ordered the government to resign, saying ministers and the central bank had failed to improve living standards.
State programs “are being implemented but there are no concrete results in many important areas,” Nazarbayev said Thursday in a statement on the presidential website. “Too few productive jobs are being created, especially in rural areas. Small and medium businesses have not become drivers of growth.”