During the last couple of decades, Kazakhstan has been taking various measures intending to increase the labor productivity and these measures are rather successful in many terms. According to the latest available statistics of the Committee on Statistics of the Ministry of National Economy Kazakhstan, the overall labor productivity in the economy of the country increased by 210% between 2000-2016. Moreover, during the same period the labor productivity grew more in the production of goods reaching 238% compared to the services sector, which showed a 192% increase. As a result, in 2000 Kazakhstan ranked 93rd in terms of labor productivity measured as GDP per person employed whereas the country was the 69th in this list in 2016.
Kanat Makhanov is a research fellow at the Eurasian Institute of the International H.A Yassawi Kazakh-Turkish University. He holds a BA in Business Economics from the KIMEP University from 2012. In 2014 he earned his Masters degree in Economics from the University of Vigo (Spain), completing his thesis on “Industrial Specialization in autonomous regions of Spain and Kazakhstan”. His main research interests are Spatial Economics, Economic Geography, Regional Economics, Human and Economic Geography.