Acronyms and abbreviations

AAC

Agrarian Credit Corporation

AIFC

Astana International Financial Centre

APG

Associated petroleum gas

BAT

Best available techniques

BIS

Bank for International Settlements

BP

British Petroleum

BRI

Belt and Road Initiative

CEO

Chief executive officer

CFC

Convertible foreign currency

CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

COP

Conference of Parties

CPI

Consumer price index

DBK

Development Bank of Kazakhstan

EBRD

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

EDF

Entrepreneurship Development Fund

EECCA

Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia

EGDI

E-government development index

EIA

Environmental Impact Assessment

EITI

Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative

ELV

Emissions limits values

EQS

Environmental ambient quality standards

ETS

Emissions Trading Scheme

FAIR

Financial Advisory Industry Review

FDI

Foreign direct investment

FOFA

Future of Financial Advice

FSSA

Financial System Stability Assessment

GDP

Gross domestic product

GEC

Green Economy Concept

GEL

Green Economy Law

GHG

Greenhouse gases

GIS

Geographic information systems

GQBE

Общесоюзный классификатор отраслей народного хозяйства (Soviet classification of “Branches of the economy”)

GSPP

Graduate School of Public Policy

HS

Harmonised System

IAIA

International Association for Impact Assessment

ICOR

Incremental capital-output ratio

ICT

Information and communication technologies

IEA

International Energy Agency

IETA

International Emissions Trading Association

IFK

Investment Fund of Kazakhstan

IFRS

International Financial Reporting Standards

IMF

International Monetary Fund

INDC

Intended Nationally Determined Contributions

IPO

Initial public offerings

IPPC

Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control

ISIC

International Standard Industrial Classification

IT

Information technology

ITF

International Transport Forum

JSC

Joint-stock company

KASE

Kazakhstan Stock Exchange

KazETS

Kazakhstan Emissions Trading Scheme

KEGOC

Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company

KIDI

Kazakhstan Industry Development Institute

KREMZK

Комитет по регулированию естественных монополий и защите конкуренции (Committee on Regulation of Natural Monopolies and Protection of Competition)

KZT

Kazakhstani Tenge

LIBOR

London Interbank Offered Rate

LTE

Long Term Evolution

MBO

Management buy-out

MCI

Monthly calculation index

MDCR

Multi-dimensional Country Review

MID

Ministry of Investment and Development

MMT

Million metric tonnes

MNE

Ministry of National Economy

MUV

Manufacturing unit values

NACE

Nomenclature statistique des activités économiques dans la Communauté européenne (Statistical Classification of Economic Activities in the European Community)

NADLoC

National Agency for the Development of Local Content

NAP

National Allocation Plan

NATD

National Agency for Technological Development

NBK

National Bank of Kazakhstan

NEA

Nuclear Energy Agency

NFRK

National Fund of the Republic of Kazakhstan

NGO

Non-governmental organisation

NMH

National Managing Holding

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

PCI

Product Complexity Index

PEEE

Public Environmental Experts’ Examination

PMR

Product Market Regulation

PPL

Public Procurement Law

PPP

Purchasing power parity

PSOE

Partially state-owned enterprises

RCA

Revealed comparative advantage

RFE

Radio Free Europe

SEEE

State Ecological Expertise Examination

SITC

Standard International Trade Classification

SME

Small and medium-sized enterprises

SOE

State-owned enterprises

SPAIID

State Programme of Accelerated Industrial and Innovative Development

TJ

Terajoules

TPES

Total primary energy supply

UNCTAD

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development

UNECE

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

UNFCCC

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UNIDO

United Nations Industrial Development Organization

WTO

World Trade Organization

ZHSSBK

Жилстройсбербанк (Housing Construction Savings Bank)