Events
The official launch of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network in Kazakhstan was held on June 8, 2022. SDSN Kazakhstan was approved as a National Network hosted by Nazarbayev University under the umbrella of the global SDSN in January 2022. The focus of Nazarbayev University through SDSN is to (1) promote practical solutions for the development of […]
On June 7, 2022, the Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Public Policy (NU GSPP) hosted the sixth annual international conference on “Public Policy and Good Governance in a Changing World”. The Conference was organized in a partnership with National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Astana Civil Service Hub, and Sustainable […]
ABOUT THE SPEAKER Ivailo Izvorski is the World Bank’s Global Macro and Debt Analytics, Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment Practice Manager. Before he was a Lead Economist on Central Asia, also worked in the front office of the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment Global Practice and before that, as the Practice Manager for the economists working […]
SYNOPSIS The book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction […]
SYNOPSIS During the Covid19 pandemic all the governments have faced with (apparent) dilemmas under time pressure like: economy vs. public health, individual freedom vs. societal safety, suppression (‘let’s kill it!’) vs. mitigation (‘let’s try to live with it!’). In framing these apparent dilemmas, decision-makers have tried to find an equilibrium over time among uncertainty, ambiguity, […]