Kazakhstan boasts $85.5 bln in gold, foreign exchange reserves
12:19, 23 October 2012
ASTANA. October 23. KAZINFORM Gold and foreign currency reserves of Kazakhstan have reached the mark of $85.5 billion and went up for $12.5 billion since the beginning of this year.
Yerbolat Dossayev, Minister of Economic Development and Trade, made these figures public while taking the floor at the government's session on Tuesday.
"In the face of uncertainty of global economy, our economy has preserved the positive growth," Minister Dossayev stressed.
He also reported that social sphere was under benign circumstances. Over the period of nine months, the real income of the population increased for 9.1 per cent.