Kazakhstan is a relatively prosperous country. It should be able to provide assistance to its most vulnerable people. It has a variety of social assistance programs, and yet they barely scratch the surface. These concerns were one of the major causes of protests and social unrest early in the year, in which about 230 people died. But the government has yet to adequately address the problem. Kazakhstan’s main assistance program, Targeted Social Assistance, is supposed to meet this need, but recent Human Rights Watch research shows it is failing to protect many people in need. The program only s…