Kazakhstan - a futuristic Muslim (majority) country.

[Chimera]

Fruits of Stability, unity and daljaceyl:

 

[Chimera]

Kazakh flowers confident in their beauty.

 

Small-business entrepreneur making a living.

 

Big time Merchants spreading the "Kazakh Brand" on the international stage.

[Chimera]

National Library: Knowledge is Power!

[Chimera]

Auditorium: Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't. - Lord Raglan

[Archdemos]

good stuff, theres also alot of development going on in Azerbaijan.

[Alpha Blondy]

what do we have here? the two most deluded individuals on this forum. your home-countries will never be like that! stop dreaming and get real. work with what you have instead of using 'others' as a reference point.

[Mad_Mullah]

Typicall Somali way of thinking, if they have nice buildings it must be a nice country. You ofcourse didn't read they're one of the most opressive states in the Muslim world. lol.

 

Typicall way of thinking, they loved Siyad Barre because he had some buildings that looked 'human'. So he must have been a good president :S/

[Mohammed]

Do you know how corrupt and poor that country is? A few pictures here and there won't hide it. The majority of its people live below the poverty line. Elections were rigged and anyone who dares to criticize the government is hushed.

 

The BBC did a documentary on it recently.

[Chimera]

The Simpleton's way of thinking when confronted with any country in the world, is to focus on the "leader" or the "junta" and be completely oblivious to the mega structure the country itself represents, that is enabling stability, which in the case of Kazakhstan equals:

 

- Higher standards of living that continues to grow.

- Children going to school, and universal literacy.

- A pension system that is the envy of the region.

- Flourishing domestic and international commerce.

- Low infant/maternal mortality rate.

- Non-existant refugee problem

- Vast majority of the population living above the poverty line.

- No Brain-drain

- Culture and Sports blooming across the country.

- Secured borders

etc.

 

A simpleton however is incapable of processing all of this. Indeed I would never condone oppression, nor dictatorships, but in both cases the mega-structure providing the above is still in place. Reforms should be encouraged, but the complete destruction of the state is suicide.

 

The Kazakhs have their house in order, kudos to them. They will find a way to reform themselves into an even better country.

 

 

Kazakhstan to raise per capita income by 50% by 2016

 

(SRI) - Kazakhstan plans to increase per capita income to $15,000 by 2016, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said in his address to the Astana Economic Forum on Tuesday.

Kazakhstan’s GDP per capita already rose from $700 a year in 1994 to almost $10,000 in 2010.

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Literacy rate:

98.4%

Very impressive!

[Blessed]

I've met a sweet Kazakhstani sister during Umrah a few years ago and added it to my places to visit back then. Loving the masaajid structures. MashaAllah.

[Alpha Blondy]

Chimera;717691 wrote:

The Simpleton's way of thinking when confronted with any country in the world, is to focus on the "leader" or the "junta" and be completely oblivious to the mega structure the country itself represents, that is enabling stability, which in the case of Kazakhstan equals:

every country is unique and has to define its own path. While Kazakhstan is success story worth highlighting. its not your precious 'somalia'.

[Buuxo]

I always thought this was a fictitious country of Borat lol

 

I love the architecture of the mosques.

[Valenteenah.]

Shiny buildings. Me like.

[Chimera]

[Timur]

Probably one of the most broken societies on earth. This is what happens when nomads equate shiny buildings to quality of life.

 

Does Kazakhstan have high literacy and education standards? Relatively yes, but so does every non-African region on earth. 90%+ literacy is the norm outside of Sub-Saharan Africa.

 

Otherwise, Kazakhstan is simply living off of massive energy and mineral reserves. Take that away and they are back to their squalor in no time. This is the opposite of a model society. Even the worst of Oman and Saudi Arabia are gold by comparison.

 

And Kazakhstan is nowhere near stable. They and the rest of Central Asia are still dealing with last generation's Soviet governors for leaders, and the friction will lead to genocide, skipping the civil war phase.