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Charity hazard in climate adaptation : the effect of anticipatory cash transfers on demand for weather insurance

Roeckert, Julian; Mogge, Lukas; Fluhrer, Svenja; … - 2026

This study examines whether receiving anticipatory cash transfers during an extreme winter affects households’ demand for index-based livestock insurance. We exploit a randomized field experiment conducted during the 2020/21 winter disaster in western Mongolia and combine household panel...

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Neither naïve nor fatalistic : decolonizing mining partnerships with indigenous communities in Mongolia and Australia

Turkina, Natalya - 2026

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At the Edge of Risk : Assessing Mongolia’s “Plausible Worst-Case” Scenario

Petrauskaite, Migle; Lin, Xinru; Pollitt, Hector - 2026

This paper develops a plausible worst-case scenario for Mongolia in which three major disasters—a sudden collapse in coal exports to China, a prolonged dzud (severe winter disaster), and a severe flood in Ulaanbaatar—occur in quick succession. While each event has precedent in Mongolia, an...

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Mongolia Economic Update, April 2026 : Maintaining Stability and Resilience - Special Focus

2026

Despite trade disruptions and geopolitical tensions, Mongolia’s growth remained strong at 6.9 percent in 2025, driven by an agricultural rebound and solid mining performance, particularly copper production at Oyu Tolgoi, which offset weaker coal activity. Growth is expected to remain solid in...

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Beyond the Urban Sweet Spot : Firm-Level Evidence of Over-Agglomeration in Mongolia’s Capital

Diaz Sanchez, Jose Luis; Lkhagvasuren, Mijiddorj - 2026

This paper provides the first firm-level assessment of agglomeration economies in Mongolia, focusing on Ulaanbaatar, the country’s dominant urban center. Using data from the 2021 Enterprise Census, the paper estimates total factor productivity for a large sample of enter-prises and examines...

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Strengthening Mongolia’s Policy Framework for Healthy Diets

2026

According to the Human Capital Index (HCI), children born in Mongolia today will be 61 percent as productive when they grow up as they could be if they enjoyed complete education and full health. Nutrition underpins every component of the HCI. Undernutrition (inadequate consumption of essential...

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FY 2026 Mongolia Country Opinion Survey Report

2026

The Country Opinion Survey in Mongolia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Mongolia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral and bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private...

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Adapting infrastructure to changing climatic conditions: The case of transport infrastructure in Mongolia

2026

Mongolia has set out ambitious plans to expand its transport infrastructure in the coming years. As climate-related risks such as floods and droughts intensify, ensuring that transport assets are planned and managed in a climate-resilient way will be critical to avoid locking in long-term...

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Mining, transfers, and urbanization : what reduced income inequality in Mongolia?

Zagdbazar, Manlaibaatar - 2026

Mongolia, a resource-rich economy, experienced a substantial decline in income inequality between 2007 and 2022: the Gini coefficient dropped from 0.44 to 0.32. Using nationally representative Household Socio-Economic Survey microdata, we analyze disposable household income, including imputed...

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Towards cleaner and responsible herding : can ecological compensation ensure sustainable grassland management in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia?

Su Runa; Angathevar Baskaran; Nur Annizah Ishak - 2026

Grassland ecosystems, China's largest terrestrial biomes, are vital for ecological stability and sustaining pastoral livelihoods. Confronting severe degradation, the Chinese government introduced the Grassland Ecological Compensation Policy (GECP), yet persistent trade-offs between herder...

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Large-scale mining and local impacts : evidence from Mongolia

Narantungalag, Odmaa - 2025

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Geographical simulation analysis of economic corridor development in Mongolia

Isono, Ikumo; Kumagai, Satoru - 2025

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How the tourism industry can help resolve Mongolia's environmental problems

Jing, Lian; Stauvermann, Peter; Kumar, Ronald Ravinesh - 2025

In this paper, we use a theoretical model to show that the development of the tourism industry is very likely to significantly reduce environmental problems in Mongolia. Among other issues, Mongolia suffers from an excessively large livestock population, which causes considerable environmental...

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"Collective property rights system reform" policy in Inner Mongolia's pastoral areas of China : a case study of the collective stock economic cooperative in Xilingol League

Xing, An - 2025

Since China's implementation of the reform and opening-up policy in 1978, Inner Mongolia's pastoral areas have faced challenges such as population outflow, aging, and the emptying of villages. To address these issues, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region government promoted the "Collective...

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Technical development of countercyclical capital buffer implementation in Mongolia's banking sector

Oyungerel, Enkhbaatar; Erdenebileg, Urangoo - 2025

This paper attempts to develop a framework for implementing the Countercyclical Capital Buffer (CCyB) in Mongolia's banking sector by identifying early warning indicators of systemic risk and examining the impact of capital adequacy on bank lending. Using quarterly data from 2000 to 2024, the...

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Mongolia Economic Update, May 2025

2025

Mongolia's economy is projected to grow by 6.3 percent in 2025, driven by a surge in copper production and a gradual recovery in the agriculture sector. While the medium-term growth outlook remains stable, significant risks and challenges remain, including the indirect effects of global trade...

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Assessing the Adaptability of Social Protection and Enhancing Herder Resilience Against Climate Shocks in Mongolia

2025

This report presents the results of extensive research and collaborative efforts to improve Mongolia's social protection system's ability to adapt to covariate shocks and enhance herder resilience to climate shocks. It analyzes the existing social protection mechanisms, with specific attention...

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Mongolia Poverty Update 2022

2025

Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon where individuals or households lack the resources to meet basic needs and fully participate in society. While it encompasses non-monetary dimensions such as social exclusion and inadequate access to essential services, it is often assessed through a...

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Mongolia Public Finance Review, June 2025 : Making this Time Different - Fiscal Reforms for Stable, Sustainable, and Inclusive Development

2025

After three difficult years, a new phase of mining-led growth that began in late 2022 has helped Mongolia emerge from a period of acute macroeconomic imbalances. Despite improvements in fiscal and macroeconomic outcomes, some vulnerabilities persist. Mongolia has experienced repeated boom-bust...

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Fiscal Multipliers in Mongolia

Poghosyan, Tigran - 2025

Fiscal policy plays an important macroeconomic role in Mongolia. On the one hand, fiscal expansion is seen as a measure to boost aggregate demand. On the other hand, import leakages mitigate the impact of fiscal expansion on growth. Applying a structural vector autoregressive model, this paper...

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Mongolia : Technical Assistance Report-Report on National Accounts Mission (September 30 - October 11, 2024)

2025

A technical assistance mission assisted the National Statistical Office of Mongolia (NSO) in improving methods for the compilation of national accounts. The mission recommended that the NSO compiles the chain-linked time series of quarterly GDP instead of using the fixed-base approach. During...

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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice toward Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation in Mongolia

2025

Over the past two decades, Mongolia has achieved significant economic growth, achieving upper-middle-income status in 2024. To continue this trajectory of growth and development, Mongolia needs to tackle the increasing challenge of changing climate and extreme weather events, which threaten...

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Interactions Between Public and Private Sector Wages and Inflation in Mongolia

Poghosyan, Tigran - 2025

The substantial increase in public sector wages in Mongolia introduced in the 2023 supplementary budget has raised concerns about its potential spillover effects on private sector wages and subsequent inflationary pressures. Furthermore, both public and private sector wages have grown on average...

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Economic clues to crime : insights from Mongolia

Ganbold, Dagvasuren; Jamsranjav, Enkhbayar; Kim, Young-Rae - 2025

This paper examines the dynamic relationship between economic indicators, law enforcement mechanisms, and property-related crimes in Mongolia using a time-series econometric approach. Relying on the theoretical frameworks of Becker’s economic model of crime and Cantor and Land’s...

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Young Mongolians and the world in 2024 : (national opinion poll results)

Byambajav, D.; Purevsuren, U.; Mendee, J.; Ariunbold, Ts.; … - 2025

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Mongolia Public Finance Review

2025

This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the forthcoming World Bank 2025 Mongolia Public Finance Review. It is intended for policymakers and practitioners who are interested to know more about the efficiency of health spending in Mongolia. It can...

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Perception and protection : the effect of risk exposure on demand for index insurance in Mongolia

Mogge, Lukas; Krähnert, Kati - 2025

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Changes in Bank Lending Standards and the Macroeconomy : Evidence from Mongolia

Poghosyan, Tigran - 2025

This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of credit supply shocks in Mongolia. Using bank credit surveys and a newly constructed indicator of changes in lending standards, adjusted for macroeconomic and bank-specific factors influencing credit demand, we identify the impact of credit supply...

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Mongolia : Technical Assistance Report-Report on National Accounts Mission (July 21–25, 2025)

2025

A technical assistance mission assisted the National Statistical Office of Mongolia (NSO) in improving methods for the compilation of national accounts. The mission reviewed the chain-linked time series of quarterly GDP by production and provided recommendations for further improvement....

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Mongolia : 2025 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Alternate Executive Director for Mongolia

2025

The 2025 Article IV Consultation with Mongolia explains that a booming mining sector in 2023-24 significantly bolstered exports and fiscal revenues, underpinning robust economic growth and lower external and fiscal vulnerabilities. The resource boom is weakening and downside risks to the outlook...

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An empirical examination of the adoption of artificial intelligence in banking services : the case of Mongolia

Byambaa, Oyundari; Yondon, Chimedtsogzol; Rentsen, Enkhbat - 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly impacted banking services, particularly in the context of rapid technological advancements. The success of the banking sector depends on establishing customers' intention to adopt AI. However, research on AI adoption in Mongolia's banking sector...

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Climate change risks and impact on Mongolia's financial sector

2025

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Water Demand Management in Mongolia : Highlights of a National Dialogue on Water

2025

Mongolia faces increasing pressure on its water resources due to rising demand, climate change and groundwater depletion. To address these challenges, the National Dialogue on Water explored approaches to improving water demand management, and how this can be supported by finance and investment...

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Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes: Mongolia 2025 (Second Round) : Peer Review Report on the Exchange of Information on Request

2025

This peer review report analyses the implementation of the standard of transparency and exchange of information on request in Mongolia, as part of the second round of reviews conducted by the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes since 2016. Due to Mongolia's...

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Making Dispute Resolution More Effective – Simplified Peer Review, Mongolia (Stage 1) : Inclusive Framework on BEPS: Action 14

2025

Under BEPS Action 14, OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework members committed to implementing a minimum standard to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of the mutual agreement procedure (MAP), which helps resolve disputes over tax treaty interpretations. The MAP is included in Article 25 of the...

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Responsible Business Conduct for Sustainable Infrastructure in Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Uzbekistan

2025

This report provides an insight into the policy landscape for sustainable infrastructure in Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Uzbekistan. It identifies opportunities for promoting responsible business conduct (RBC) in infrastructure development in the countries and includes policy considerations on how...

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Towards a Renewable Hydrogen Strategy for Mongolia

2025

Thanks to its very high levels of solar irradiation and wind-power generation capacity, Mongolia has attracted interest from the private sector as a potential location to develop renewable hydrogen pilot projects. At the same time, the government has included the development of hydrogen...

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Building bankable green project pipelines in the non-infrastructure sectors of Mongolia

2025

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A small open-economy DSGE model with a mortgage market for Mongolia

Baek, Seungjun - 2025

We compare the macroeconomic and housing-market effects of (1) reducing mortgage subsidies, (2) tightening borrower-based tools (debt-service-to-income [DSTI]/loan-to-value [LTV]) and (3) standard monetary and external shocks.We develop a small open-economy (SOE) New Keynesian dynamic stochastic...

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How Can Mongolia Address the Gender Gap in Life Expectancy?

Jarvis, Forest; Johnson, Hillary C.; Ruest, Maude - 2025

The Government of Mongolia is committed to reducing the gender gap in life expectancy. Reducing the gender gap in life expectancy is an explicit objective of Mongolia's Cross-Sectoral Strategic Plan for Promoting Gender Equality in Mongolia (2022-31). The first plan to reduce the disparity in...

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Mongolia : Public Investment Management Assessment Update

Huang, Guohua - 2024

An IMF team found that Mongolia has made progress in public investment management since the 2016 PIMA. However, several challenges persist, and new issues are emerging. The team has identified five high-priority recommendations that could improve PIM processes and support the effective...

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From energy consumption control to carbon emission control in fossil and renewable energy rich regions : a general equilibrium analysis of Inner Mongolia

Huang, Qiushi; Geng, Yong; Yu, Zhongjue - 2025

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Distress prediction and stress testing of nonfinancial firms : case of Mongolia

Damdinjav, Davaasukh; Batjargal, Dulamzaya; Batmunkh, Ninjin - 2024

This paper investigates the resilience of non-financial firms in Mongolia against financial distress. Utilizing firm-level financial data from 2013 to 2022, we employed a LASSO variable selection technique and logistic regression analysis to develop a distress prediction model for these firms....

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Barriers to saving for retirement : evidence from a public pension program in mongolia

Tanaka, Tomoaki; Yamasaki, Junichi; Sawada, Yasuyuki; … - 2025

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Conserving China's northwest frontier : nature, culture, and future

Hsing, You-tien - 2025

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Market distance and household income : quasi-experimental evidence from Mongolia

Lkhanaa, Tseveenjav - 2024

This paper examines the impact of access to markets on livestock-related income of herder households in Mongolia. The empirical findings show that reducing the distance to markets by ten kilometers increases household income by 1.0 percent on average.

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The role of digital financial inclusion in promoting common prosperity : evidence from Inner Mongolia

Borjigin, Wuyunzhaola; He, Sarula; Xu, Huixian - 2025

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FY 2023 Mongolia Country Opinion Survey Report

2024

The Country Opinion Survey in Mongolia assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in better understanding how stakeholders in Mongolia perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia, the private sector,...

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Mongolia Economic Update, November 2024

2024

Mongolia's coal-driven economic growth since 2023 has elevated the country to upper-middle-income status (UMIC) in 2024. Real gross domestic product (GDP) growth has remained robust, driven by mining and transport services, despite a sharp contraction in the agriculture sector. On the demand...

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Forecasting inflation in Mongolia using machine learning

Doojav, Gan-Ochir; Narmandakh, Batbold - 2025

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