The herding household
essay 1996 Bruun, Ole

MongoliaAsia > Central Asia
In this chapter from the book 'Mongolia in Transition,' Bruun examines herding households' transition to a market economy. One-third of Mongolia's population are herders. With the economic crisis of the 1990s a substantial number of the urban populat...

A Society and economy in transition
essay 1996 Bruun, Ole & Odgaard, Ole

MongoliaAsia > Central Asia
In this chapter from the book 'Mongolia in Transition,' the authors discuss the post-Soviet era economic and political changes in Mongolia, which began in 1990. The overnight change from a planned economy to a market economy involved the privatizatio...