This poverty assessment for Mongolia provides recent trends in monetary and non-monetary aspects of poverty and establishes baseline poverty information based on the first nationally representative household survey; analyzes poverty related issues in selected sectors - livestock, education, and energy - to inform implementation of the government's programs and long-term strategy; and discusses cross-cutting issues - social assistance programs and institutional weaknesses -that are relevant for poverty reduction. Analyses in the report utilize primarily the most recent (2002) household survey data but also draw upon the joint report on poverty estimates and profile, the joint report of participatory poverty assessment, and various publications of donors and NGOs and World Bank sector reports. Based on the poverty facts as well as extensive in-country consultation, the most pressing poverty challenges in Mongolia are related to widespread livestock mortality risks, attrition before upper secondary schooling, and exorbitant heating burden.
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