Assessment of the dynamics and structure of post-industrial services in the economy of Kazakhstan

Abstract

Object: The article analyzes and assesses the main trends in the development of service sectors, which form the basis of the post industrial stage of development. The article aims to assess the main indicators of growth of the postindustrial services sector in Kazakhstan in world trends to identify positive and negative trends in dynamics and structural shifts.
Methods: Statistical methods of processing economic data were used: methods of grouping, analysis of dynamics and structure.
Findings: A comparative analysis of the main indicators of growth of the post-industrial services sector in competitive OECD countries, as well as a comparison of the main macroeconomic structural and dynamic indicators of business and professional services in the United States and Kazakhstan, facilitated to identify the main positions of Kazakhstan’s lagging the economies of developed countries of the world. Economic and statistical analysis of the dynamics and structure of development of post industrial services in Kazakhstan is carried out on all significant parameters of the development of types of services of this group available in domestic statistics. The result of the structural and dynamic analysis was the identification of several groups in the economy of the post-industrial sector. Qualitative and quantitative characteristics made it possible to find out the leaders of development; activities characterized by stability and high market share, but having weak dynamics; shrinking sectors of post-industrial services. The lack of pronounced dynamics in the development of the manufacturing industry was expressed in the shift within the engineering services sector from second place to third and technical tests and analysis to fourth.
Conclusions: Although there is dynamics in the indicators of natural sciences, nanotechnology and medical research, their positions do not yet point to a turnaround in science and have no impact on the main economic indicators. The factors of movement towards a post-industrial economy should be the structural restructuring of the economy of Kazakhstan and the development of scientific research in natural and technical fields, including through an increase in their state funding