Kazakhstan may lose its status as a crediting country and become a borrowing country, according to analysts from BCC Invest, who broke down a draft law on adjusting budget parameters published recently by the Ministry of Finance.
The document says that the Ministry of Finance re-calculated its estimates and downgraded its forecast for tax revenue expected to be collected by the end of the year by $6.1 billion to $25.6 billion. To cover that gap the country’s government has already raised the bar for money transfers from the National Fund by $4 billion to $11.4 billion. As a result, the...