Dec. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Kazakhstan’s economy expanded 7.5 percent from a year earlier in the first eleven months of the year, Prime Minister Karim Massimov said on his Twitter account.

The growth figure was confirmed by the state statistics agency.

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