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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper analyzes whether Kazakhstan has made progress in achieving a more equal income distribution, lower poverty, and a higher level of employment. Given the overarching structural challenges for Kazakhstan, the authorities are stepping up efforts to implement various measures.",
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      "heading": "Summary and purpose",
      "content": "- This Selected Issues paper analyzes whether Kazakhstan has made progress in achieving a more equal income distribution, lower poverty, and a higher level of employment.\n- Given the overarching structural challenges for Kazakhstan, the authorities are stepping up efforts to implement various measures."
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      "heading": "Labor market and youth employment",
      "content": "- The authorities have been revamping a college internship program and a job placement program.\n- Objective: to make educated youth competitive in the labor market and to reduce labor market mismatches.\n- Implication: bolstering youth employment and addressing labor market challenges."
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      "heading": "Inclusivity, inequality, and unemployment — key findings",
      "content": "- The results suggest that Kazakhstan’s economic growth has been broadly inclusive; however, there is room for further improvement.\n- Both income inequality and unemployment in Kazakhstan compare favorably to peers."
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      "heading": "Fiscal policy and transfers — analysis and recommendations",
      "content": "- Fiscal policy could be a useful tool to help reduce income inequality.\n- Better targeting of transfers reduces their fiscal cost and tax levels required to finance them, thus achieving distributional objectives in a more efficient manner."
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    "This Selected Issues paper analyzes whether Kazakhstan has made progress in achieving a more equal income distribution, lower poverty, and a higher level of employment.",
    "Given the overarching structural challenges for Kazakhstan, the authorities are stepping up efforts to implement various measures.",
    "The authorities have been revamping a college internship program and a job placement program.",
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    "Implication: bolstering youth employment and addressing labor market challenges.",
    "The results suggest that Kazakhstan’s economic growth has been broadly inclusive; however, there is room for further improvement.",
    "Both income inequality and unemployment in Kazakhstan compare favorably to peers.",
    "Fiscal policy could be a useful tool to help reduce income inequality.",
    "Better targeting of transfers reduces their fiscal cost and tax levels required to finance them, thus achieving distributional objectives in a more efficient manner.",
    "An ambitious structural reform agenda is paramount to Kazakhstan becoming a dynamic emerging market economy and ensuring sustainable and inclusive growth.",
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