2021-07-02 11:48:19 Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. Mining governance in Mongolia remains “satisfactory,” with marginal improvements since a previous assessment, according to the 2021 edition of the Resource Governance Index (RGI).
The slight increase in the country’s overall 2021 RGI score—up 6 points from the 2017 RGI, to 70 out of 100 points—was driven by improvements in revenue management and Mongolia’s enabling environment, with Mongolia scoring high in the index’s open data subcomponent due to digitization efforts by the government.
“As the Mongolian government discusses changes to mining legislation, the Resource Governance Index provides needed evidence and proposes solutions to the challenges the country is facing in the pandemic era,” said Dorjdari Namkhaijantsan, country manager for Mongolia at the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI).