This week in Nay Pyi Taw, H.E. U Zin Yaw, Myanmar’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Asia Foundation President 
Posts By Davaasuren Baasankhuu
Holding Government Officials Accountable: Mongolia’s Fight Against Corruption
February 24, 2010
Last week – February 15 – marked the deadline for Mongolia’s highest-level officials and civil servants to reveal all: all of their financial and material worth, that is. Civil servants and officials were required to submit Asset and Income Disclosure (AID) statements by that deadline, with disclosures from the top 270 officials posted on a [...]
Topics: Governance
Countries: Mongolia
Mongolia’s First Economic Forum Highlights Latest Push for Growth
February 17, 2010
With four-fifths of its export income dependent on mining exports, Mongolia was hit particularly hard by the recent international economic crisis. A recent New York Times article goes so far as to say that Mongolia is arguably Asia’s hardest hit country. For a nation experiencing a period of rapid growth averaging 9 percent per year [...]
Topics: Economic Development
Countries: Mongolia