Trends in international investment flows: Foreign direct investment in Mongolia

Despite the worldwide stagnation in FDI, interest in Mongolia on the part of foreign investors, especially those from East Asia, North America, has grown over the last few years, mainly in the mining, trade and service sectors. The increase of FDI into Mongolia can be linked with the Mongolian gover...

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Main Authors: Baasankhuu Ganzorig, Dashnyam Nachin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2006-12-01
Series:Journal of International Logistics and Trade
Online Access:https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.24006/jilt.2006.4.2.107/full/pdf
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description Despite the worldwide stagnation in FDI, interest in Mongolia on the part of foreign investors, especially those from East Asia, North America, has grown over the last few years, mainly in the mining, trade and service sectors. The increase of FDI into Mongolia can be linked with the Mongolian government’s efforts to establish a more favorable external and internal legal environment in order to provide a free and open regime for business, the shifting tendency of world market center from traditional Europe, America to Asia, namely to China, resolving the “big debt” issue between Mongolia and Russian Federation which open new favorable opportunities for intensification of foreign investment inflows, increased domestic private savings and lastly Mongolia’s GDP steady growth rate during last years. The purpose of this paper is to review FDI inflows into Mongolia, detailing the sectors benefiting from this investment and the countries where it originates, based on information gathered in the period up to 2005.
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spelling doaj.art-fabb6e29c98747e4b4e7aa6b9da89f4d2023-11-17T11:04:26ZengEmerald PublishingJournal of International Logistics and Trade1738-21222508-75922006-12-014210712010.24006/jilt.2006.4.2.107Trends in international investment flows: Foreign direct investment in MongoliaBaasankhuu Ganzorig0Dashnyam Nachin1Foreign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency of Mongolia, Government Bldg. # 11, Sambuu Street 11, Ulaanbaatar 211238, MongoliaForeign Investment and Foreign Trade Agency of Mongolia, Government Bldg. # 11, Sambuu Street 11, Ulaanbaatar 211238, MongoliaDespite the worldwide stagnation in FDI, interest in Mongolia on the part of foreign investors, especially those from East Asia, North America, has grown over the last few years, mainly in the mining, trade and service sectors. The increase of FDI into Mongolia can be linked with the Mongolian government’s efforts to establish a more favorable external and internal legal environment in order to provide a free and open regime for business, the shifting tendency of world market center from traditional Europe, America to Asia, namely to China, resolving the “big debt” issue between Mongolia and Russian Federation which open new favorable opportunities for intensification of foreign investment inflows, increased domestic private savings and lastly Mongolia’s GDP steady growth rate during last years. The purpose of this paper is to review FDI inflows into Mongolia, detailing the sectors benefiting from this investment and the countries where it originates, based on information gathered in the period up to 2005.https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.24006/jilt.2006.4.2.107/full/pdf
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