Present-Day Challenges for and Postulates of the Regional Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan

At the current stage of development, Kazakhstan‟s regional policy is called on to
ensure the formation of favorable conditions and factors for building up the internal and external
competitiveness of regions, ensuring the territorial concentration of labor and capital resources in
centers of economic growth, and boosting the regional employment rate and the quality of life of
the republic‟s citizens. This has been reflected in numerous state programs, which this article is
going to examine. The author concludes that reducing the differentiation between regions is
possible only through the formation of centers of economic growth.