Kazakhstan Plans to Switch to the Latin Alphabet. Don't They Have Better Things to Do?

According to interfax, Kazakhstan is planning on joining Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan in officially transitioning their Turkic language from the Cyrillic to Latin script. The only reasons I can imagine to do this are to pander to a Kazakh nationalism that seeks to divide ethnic Russians and Kazakhs, or to make Kazakh marginally easier for Westerners to learn. The first is obviously not a good reason, and there are much, much cheaper, much much more effective things the Kazakh government could do to effect the second. Publishing a decent Kazakh-English dictionary would be a good start.