International Conference on Eurasian Economies
11-13 October 2012 – Almaty, KAZAKHSTAN
Paper detail
Paper ID : 396
Status : Paper published
Language : Turkish
Topic : Regional Economics
Presenter: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yurtseven
Session : 3B Orta Asya Ekonomileri
An Evaluation of Turkistan Tradesman in Terms of Social Policy
Türkistan Pazar Esnafının Sosyal Siyaset Açısından Değerlendirilmesi
- Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yurtseven (Çankırı Karatekin University, Türkiye)
Abstract
The Republic of Kazakhstan is one of those countries that declared their independency after collapse of former Soviet Union. It tries to implement the market economy. The petroleum sector is one of the top of the rapidly developing economic sectors. But it is not a labor intensive sector. Poverty and unemployment are the main socioeconomic problems. The level of the wages is low throughout the country. Even though poverty exhibits tendency to drop, it prevails in the rural area. In our study, socio-economic structure, organization, working relations, social-cultural life, consumers’ characteristics, and problems of bazaar tradesman in the Turkistan city are being introduced. The average of age of 66% of Turkistan bazaar tradesman, most of them are women, is between 20 and 40, the rate of marriage for 6-11 years is 30%, average number of children is 3, schooling rate is 100%. Turkistan bazaar tradesman’s saving habit is 24%, percentage of insured ones is 6%, the percentage of them who take advantage of laws that arrange the working life is 27%. Although the Republic of Kazakhstan has a large land, it has population problems. Literacy level is high with the rate of 98%. Policies in favor of increasing the number of population are being followed. The increase of the number of the children in the family is being encouraged. Policies for bringing the Kazakh citizens who live abroad and reaches up to 5-6 million into the country are being followed.
JEL codes: J08, R11, P16
Yurtseven, Ahmet (2012). "An Evaluation of Turkistan Tradesman in Terms of Social Policy" in Proceedings of International Conference of Eurasian Economies 2012, pp.199-206, Almaty, KAZAKHSTAN.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36880/C03.00396
Session 3B: Orta Asya Ekonomileri
