在纳扎尔巴耶夫时代,哈萨克斯坦经济获得长足发展,在独联体国家中位列第二,仅次于俄罗斯。纳扎尔巴耶夫多年致力于推进欧亚一体化倡议,并使哈萨克斯坦成功与俄罗斯、白俄罗斯等国组建欧亚经济联盟。自独立以来,哈萨克斯坦与俄罗斯始终保持良好关系,经贸往来十分密切,并将本国货币坚戈汇率与卢布长期保持一致。哈萨克斯坦经济特征表现为总量增长,但在就业和中小企业发展方面稍显落后,产业结构有待调整;区域结构中南北差异有所缓解,但资源型经济发展路径需逐步改善。不过,丰沛的自然资源为哈萨克斯坦能够常年实施积极的财政政策提供了资金支持。

In the Nazarbayev era, Kazakhstan’s economy has made great progress, ranking second among the CIS countries, only second to Russia. Nazarbayev has been committed to advancing the Eurasian integration initiative for many years and has made Kazakhstan successfully form the Eurasian economic union with Russia, Belarus and other countries. Since its independence, Kazakhstan and Russia have always maintained good relations with close economic and trade exchanges, and kept the exchange rate of its currency, the tengo, in line with the rouble for a long time. Kazakhstan’s economy is characterized by total growth, but it lags behind in employment and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and its industrial structure needs to be adjusted. The difference between north and south in regional structure has been alleviated, but the development path of resource-based economy needs to be improved gradually. However, abundant natural resources have funded years of active fiscal policy.