Inclusive development: Assessment of regional inequality in Kazakhstan and measures to reduce it

Nurlanova N. Alzhanova F. Saparbek N. Dnishev F.
2023 LLC CPC Business Perspectives

Problems and Perspectives in Management
2023 #21 Issue 2 734 - 743 pp.

In recent years, inequality in the economic and social development of regions and population has increased in Kazakhstan. The purpose of this paper is to assess the level of differences between the regions of Kazakhstan in the field of social, economic, innovation, and infrastructural inclusion and offer recommendations for reducing regional inequality. The research hypothesis is that the high level of economic inequality of the regions determines the high level of differences in the field of social inclusion, inclusion in the field of infrastructure and innovation. The assessment of regional differences was carried out according to four groups of economic, social, innovative, and infrastructural indicators; private and integral indices of inclusive development of regions were calculated. The gaps between the highest and lowest index by groups were revealed: social inclusion – 3.37; economic inclusion – 7.45; infrastructure inclusion – 2.96; innovative inclusion – 6.67. A map of inclusive development of the regions of Kazakhstan is developed. Estimates showed that despite the large gap in the economic development of the regions, the gap in social and infrastructural development remained smaller. In cases where the gap between the maximum and minimum values of the index in the regions increased, more and more regions found themselves in the group with a low level of inclusive development.

inclusion , index of inclusive development , inequality , Kazakhstan , ranking , region , regional policy

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Project Scientific Supervisor, Department of Regional Economy Development, Institute of Economics, Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
Department of Innovation Development, Institute of Economics, Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan
Department of Economy, Higher School of Business and Economics, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan

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Department of Innovation Development
Department of Economy

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