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10 February 2020
The speaker provided an overview of Mongolia’s experience with nonperforming loans and the interventions of development partners. The measures taken under the IMF and ADB programs helped strengthen the overall banking system, with important reforms taken in the direction of banking sector…
Barriers and Enablers to Renewable Energy Financing and Investment for Grid-connected Wind and Solar
20 June 2019
Wind and solar are undergoing a global revolution with rapidly increasing installations driven by a range of technical, economic, regulatory, and institutional drivers. Recent work under the USAID, US-APEC Technical Assistance to Advance Regional Integration (US-ATAARI) project, found that…
18 May 2018
Mongolia has been facing various economic challenges in recent years. Its gross domestic product growth decelerated, its fiscal deficit widened, and government debt decreased. It needs to ramp up its social protection programs to assist the poor and most vulnerable.
9 November 2017
This presentation shares brief information on e-money, customer-based infrastructure, and the convenience joint cards provides to users, in the context of Mobicom's experience. It also highlights how information sharing can help reduce risk.
30 August 2017
Back in 2008, Mongolia suffered from the highest inflation rate in Asia, reaching up to 30%. This led to lower food quality, especially for women and limited funds for education and health needs. The government, through ADB assistance, established a food stamp program to help the poor buy critical…
16 February 2017
Since its independence, Mongolia has made considerable progress in reducing poverty. From 38.8% in 2010, poverty incidence in the country declined to 21.6% in 2014. However, meeting the social protection agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals would require Mongolia to pursue crucial measures.…
17 November 2015
Providing access to financial services for the poor and vulnerable non-poor households is the aim of ADB's Promoting Inclusive Financial Services for the Poor project in Mongolia. To implement the project’s communication component, entertainment-educate was used as an approach to conduct financial…
17 November 2015
ADB’s Promoting Inclusive Financial Services for the Poor project in Mongolia has shown why it is important to strike a balance between changing behavior about financial planning and saving with existing financial services, and choosing a communication approach and medium that could carry…