Kazakhstan ramps up SME support to attract European investment and fuel economic growth

By Botagoz Marabai

Published on 20/05/2025 - 15:00 GMT+2

Kazakhstan is expanding its SME assemblage pinch targeted reforms, financing, and state-backed guarantees worthy astir €18 cardinal by 2027. New incentives support associated ventures, overseas entrepreneurs, and section manufacturing, pinch complete 11,000 SMEs already operating nether shared ownership. The DAMU Fund plays a cardinal role, having financed complete 1,600 foreign-led projects. European investors are uncovering opportunity successful sectors for illustration agribusiness, logistics, and IT. As Kazakhstan shifts from assets extraction to value-added production, waste and acquisition offices and ineligible frameworks are helping European firms participate a transforming marketplace pinch confidence.