Local Government Organization and Finance: Kazakhstan
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T A B L E 8 . 5 Withdrawals to and Subventions Received from the National Budget, by Oblast (tenge million) Oblast
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005a
Akmolinskaya 3,928 4,153 4,391 7,192 9,353 14,112 13,864 Aktubinskaya (1,646) (1,830) (3,626) (569) (429) 2,131 (1,373) Almatinskaya 5,891 6,055 8,298 10,289 10,125 14,425 15,419 Atyrauskaya (6,766) (13,227) (28,790) (19,601) (20,115) (22,669) (28,989) East Kazakhstan 275 (1,279) (2,460) 5,190 9,348 15,010 15,469 Zhambylskaya 2,286 3,158 4,866 6,877 10,470 15,065 15,058 West Kazakhstan 335 254 (887) 1,286 (497) 5,657 7,665 Karagandinskaya (3,939) (5,820) (9,856) (81) 1,835 6,998 5,026 Kostanayskaya (363) (377) 841 4,182 5,191 8,892 9,478 Kyzylordinskaya 3,169 2,403 1,262 6,645 8,972 10,909 11,009 Mangistauskaya (4,844) (4,262) (10,629) (9,000) (10,651) (10,139) (15,989) Pavlodarskaya (3,539) (1,590) (2,106) (1,896) (974) 1,043 1,259 North Kazakhstan 2,971 3,192 3,732 5,202 6,206 11,468 11,461 South Kazakhstan 5,959 7,902 12,115 12,901 19,072 28,685 27,317 Almaty city (16,162) (21,867) (25,801) (17,915) (24,964) (32,061) (45,358) Astana city n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. (1,804) (3,301) Total withdrawals (37,259) (50,251) (84,155) (49,065) (57,630) (66,673) (95,009) Total subventions 24,814 27,118 35,504 59,763 80,513 134,395 133,028 Source: Ministry of Finance 2005. Note: n.a. = not applicable. Withdrawals are in parentheses. a. Data are provisional.
If we look at the total volume of local budget revenues, amounts transferred from the national budget to subsidized oblasts amount to 15 percent; if we look at the total shares of expenditures, they amount to 11 percent. But, certainly, if each oblast is examined separately, there are significant differences between them. For instance, in 2003, 71 percent of income in Zhambylskaya oblast was received in the form of a subvention from the national budget, which allowed the oblast financing of up to 72.5 percent of its expenditures. This high level of subvention is related to an earthquake experienced by the oblast in 2003. In 2002, the subvention in Zhambylskaya oblast amounted to 57 percent of income. In 2003, the subvention in South Kazakhstan amounted to 52 percent and allowed the financing of 52.5 percent of oblast expenditures. Annual allocations of special transfers to local budgets for building schools, hospitals, and water supply systems to implement the drinking water program have been in effect since 2002.
