This report assesses the Observance of Standards and Codes on Fiscal Transparency for the Republic of Kazakhstan. The fiscal reporting and dissemination of information in Kazakhstan has already achieved a sound level of practice, and can be built upon with relatively little further effort. Promising work has also begun in establishing a disciplined medium-term budget framework. Such a framework will be essential to enable policy proposals to be appraised in light of their long-term costs, which is of central importance in linking development programs to recurrent costs and in examining social security trends
