This paper focuses on the attitudes of Astana residents on the usage of different languages combination on the street signs, banners, and placards. The paper discusses whether the language/-s used on the visual infrastructure ...

This paper investigates factors that have a significant influence on decision-making for using public bike-sharing schemes of the residents of the Nur-Sultan and Almaty cities. Recently, municipalities have introduced ...

Kazakhstan’s Conditional Targeted Social Assistance (CTSA) program is a large-scale workfare program that targets poor people, who are able to work. This study evaluates the cost-effectiveness of the CTSA program in ...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become the fifth documented pandemic since the 1918 flu pandemic. According to the official statistics, as of March 2023, it has claimed nearly 7 million ...

This paper analyzes the current government policies in Kazakhstan related to disability care with specific focus on ASD programs and support. More specifically, the study questions how ASD is classified as a disorder in ...

We live in a world of abundant resources, but we also realize that nearly one billion people worldwide suffer from chronic hunger. Food security remains an elusive objective throughout many developing countries. Each state's ...

Today, Open Government principles are implemented by countries in order to create appropriate conditions for effective governance and public policy system. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness ...

This study investigates how the implementation of public-private partnerships affects the autonomy of private schools in Astana. Public-private partnership policy in school education is a strategy to improve the quality ...

The share of SMEs in the economy of Kazakhstan is very low, despite their crucial role in generating employment and driving economic growth. The presence of a large informal sector exacerbates this situation by deterring ...