BRITISH ACCOUNTANT TELLS HOW HE HELPS RUN KAZAKHSTAN’S ECONOMY
April 1st, 2013
IT seems for all the world like the setting for a Graham Greene novel: a British-trained chartered accountant in charge of an almost unfathomably wealthy state-owned holding corporation in a distant outpost.Yet Greene would barely recognise the 21st century context in which Our Man in Kazakhstan operates. This is no flyblown posting, because Peter Howes has a senior and influential role managing the economy of one of the world's most energetic and thriving countries. Kazakhstan is booming, with annual GDP growth of around 8%, 30 billion barrels of crude oil ...
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