The total value of transfers arising from support to agriculture was equivalent to 1.17% of GDP in 2009-11. A similar picture almost certainly applies to Kazakhstan as price liberalisation removed the benefit of receiving output prices at above and key inputs at below world levels. As the government was focussed on more pressing priorities, such as macroeconomic stabilisation and the creation of a basic legal framework for a market economy, other areas of agricultural policy remained largely neglected.