First came the pyramid, now comes the tent. Foster is designing a new project for Kazakhstan called Khan Shatyry: "The idea is to recreate summer, so that when the outside temperature is -30C, the residents of the Kazakh capital can play outdoor tennis, take boat rides or sip coffee on the pavement cafes." BBC
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Wow, is this where Kazakhstan should be spending money??
Although Kazakhstan has enjoyed relatively high economic growth over recent years, fuelled mainly by its oil and gas industries, diversification of the economy is needed to further reduce poverty in the largest Central Asian country, UNDP said in a new report released on Wednesday.
"The main finding [of the report] is that poverty remains a problem in Kazakhstan and therefore needs to stay high on the national agenda of priorities," Gordon Johnson, deputy resident representative of UNDP Kazakhstan, told IRIN from the Kazakh commercial capital, Almaty, on
Thursday.
"One of the interesting findings from the report is that there is a very large portion of the population that is low income [as opposed to being in complete poverty]... about 47 percent of the population," the UNDP official said. The low income threshold is twice the subsistence minimum, thus a monthly income of some $70.
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Foster pitches yurt in Borat’s back yard. UKT
The Excesses of Kazakh Architecture Registan.net
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