Satybaldieva and Sanghera: “When addressing regional inequality, we must remember class”

International Financial Institutions and foreign donors write recommendations for the development of the regions of Kazakhstan with their resource base in mind. They are individually considered as cogs in the industrial machine of the country, rather than full-fledged spaces for society. The causes of inequality lie not so much in the economic potential of the territory or in the preferences of the political leadership. Rather, inequality grows and prospers because of business elites extracting rent with minimal redistribution.