Anvar Saideno, NBK: A guiding hand from the central bank

What are the principal challenges facing the National Bank of Kazakhstan today?

Anvar Saidenov: Kazakhstan must diversify its economy and find niches where it can be competitive.

The government and the central bank face a common challenge. That is excessive dependence on oil and gas and metals, the extractive industries. The oil and extractive resources sectors are the primary engines of growth but we need to design and construct another engine of growth, or maybe even two or three more.