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Article: Sisyphus' armchair headaches.
- Article from:
- Times of Central Asia
- Article date:
- May 1, 2009
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By Charles van der Leeuw special for TCA ALMATY May 01, 2009, (TCA Editions) -- The question has been put forward a couple of times on this page, and it keeps imposing itself: have states around the globe come to the rescue of their national economies, or just to cliques of long-fingered gentry? Wherever fresh figures pop up in terms of economic trends and settings, uneasy feelings regarding faults and benefits pop up alongside, and Kazakhstan is no exception.
There seems to be no end to plans and decisions to "allocate" state funds to a wide variety of beneficiaries. The latest news includes selective data on state expenditure within the framework of the ...