Transcripción del resumen del autor. A new set of prickly problems facing Kazakhstan's oil industry are related to the Caspian country's broader economic downturn, writes Gordon Feller. The commodity-centric industries as a whole face large and complicated challenges - some of the most troublesome stem from mounting lean losses in the banking sector (which depends heavily on the commodity exporters) and the worsening terms of trade now facing oil, gas and minerals companies.

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