Abstract
Kazakhstan, like other CIS members, is engaged in macroeconomic reorganization and in the search for concrete avenues of transition to a market economy. The course taken is oriented primarily toward destatization and privatization as the basis for forming fundamentally new agents of property and market relations. State property is transformed into nonstate forms through conversion to joint stock companies and the direct sale of enterprises to private ownership at auctions and through competitive bidding. Many major, strategic goods in basic sectors will be transformed on the basis of individual plans/projects. The republic plans to complete privatization mostly in 1994.