Abstract. The article presents a study of the corruption perception and the involvement of SMEs in corruption practices. The main goal of the paper is to provide an analysis of corruption perception of the SMEs representatives, its parts and research methodology to provide an adequate picture and analysis of corruption of the Kazakhstan. For obtaining a comparative picture, we interviewed 500 representatives of SMEs and 500 civil servants. We used a mass survey (face-to-face) method. The results show that the presence of "gap" between perception of corruption and degree of the respondents' involvement in corrupt practices. The respondents believe that corruption is widespread, but they themselves were rarely involved in corrupt practices. The key message is that the SMEs representatives consider this problem to be acute, but they are not ready to talk about their own experience in this regard.
Kazakhstan is one of the few countries in Central Asia in a historically short period of time managed to take strong positions in the international arena. However, under the conditions of rapidly changing world, the country has to face challenges driven by new requirements to civil servants professional level. Therefore, the 100 Steps Government Agenda [1] approved in 2015 establishes "The Formation of a Professional Government" as a significant priority. This requires improving approaches to training of civil servants. The purpose of the article is to examine the evolution of the civil service training system in Kazakhstan and explore recent training innovations. The article is based on the analysis of the Civil Service Law, the materials provided by the Ministry for Civil Service Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan (MCSA) and the findings of a survey conducted to identify training needs and effectiveness of training at the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (APA).
Performance evaluation of the government agencies seems to be one of the most important issues in modern public administration. Th e countries with developed economies introduced various performance evaluation models. Th e developing countries also implement instruments to evaluate the government agencies performance. Unlike countries with developed institutional environments, the developing ones very oft en import evaluation models that have been proven in other countries. In that context, our research aimed to understand how the performance evaluation models work in countries with a developing institutional environment. Th e fact is that the performance evaluation of the government agencies shows certain results which present it in a positive way to the public. Unfortunately, these survey results do not adequately cover diffi culties and obstacles that appear in the performance evaluation introduction process. In this regard, the perception of the evaluation system by the fi rst-hand (civil servants), as well as the end entities (NGO representatives) of how the introduction of the evaluation institute contributes to improving the eff ectiveness of government agencies need to be analyzed.Th is article presents an analysis of the impact performance evaluation on performance in government agencies of Kazakhstan through interviews with civil ser-
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