The legal system of Kazakhstan is descended from the Roman-Germanic legal tradition.

The economic and geopolitical situations of Kazakhstan’s key trading partners (Russia and China) can serve to severely hamper the economy, as seen in the contemporary.

Since gaining independence in December 1991, Kazakhstan’s economy has undergone deep transformation.

A critical aspect of investing in emerging markets is the need to discriminate between short-term growth fads and sustainable development. As Paul Krugman famously discusses in his article, “The Myth of Asia’s Miracle,” it is often very easy to get caught up in aggregate GDP growth statistics without looking deeper into what is driving those statistics. This can lead to an investing-with-the-herd mentality and the systematic under-appreciation of some of the most interesting and lucrative opportunities across emerging markets.

Paladin Realty, a leading institutional real estate investor in South America, argues the region houses some of the most under-valued markets in the world and thus is capable of potentially unmatched growth. This sentiment is backed-up by the firm's recent infrastructure investment in 2018, hoped to produce a projected $420 million dollars in sales revenue.¹ Importantly, however, just as South America is the home of the Samba, Tango and Pablo Escobar alike, its investment opportunities are heterogenous and varied.