Assessment of corruption in Mongolia

This report presents the results of a corruption assessment conducted in June and July 2005 by Casals & Associates, Inc. (C&A) with funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission to Mongolia in collaboration with USAID/Washington and The Asia Foundation (TAF). The major finding of the report, consistent with other quantitative and qualitative studies conducted previously, is that opportunities for corruption are increasing in Mongolia at both the “petty” or administrative and “grand” or elite levels. Both types of corruption should be of concern to Mongolians, but grand corruption should be considered a more serious one because it solidifies linkages between economic and political power that can negatively impact or ultimately derail democracy and development, as it has in other post- Communist countries. Several inter-related factors contribute to the growing corruption problem in Mongolia,