LEADER 05024nam 2201045Ia 450 001 9910783312103321 005 20230617024432.0 010 $a1-59734-759-0 010 $a1-282-35808-1 010 $a9786612358081 010 $a0-520-93862-3 010 $a1-4175-8504-8 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520938625 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030788 035 $a(EBL)227312 035 $a(OCoLC)475933710 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000204438 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175466 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000204438 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10176365 035 $a(PQKB)11047142 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000055977 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC227312 035 $a(OCoLC)58728556 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30775 035 $a(DE-B1597)520301 035 $a(OCoLC)1109370047 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520938625 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL227312 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10075621 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235808 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030788 100 $a20040730d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aModern Mongolia$b[electronic resource] $efrom khans to commissars to capitalists /$fMorris Rossabi 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (435 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-24419-2 311 $a0-520-24399-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMongolia: a peaceful transition -- From Russian to western influence -- Pressure for a market economy, 1990/1997 -- Political and economic dislocations, 1997/2004 -- Herding and the new economy -- Poverty and other social problems -- Culture and the market economy -- A new Mongolia in a new world -- Sino-Mongolian relations. 330 $aLand-locked between its giant neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it. When the Soviet Union collapsed in the early 1990's, Mongolia turned to international financial agencies-including the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank-for help in compensating for the economic changes caused by disruptions in the communist world. Modern Mongolia is the best-informed and most thorough account to date of the political economy of Mongolia during the past decade. In it, Morris Rossabi explores the effects of the withdrawal of Soviet assistance, the role of international financial agencies in supporting a pure market economy, and the ways that new policies have led to greater political freedom but also to unemployment, poverty, increasingly inequitable distribution of income, and deterioration in the education, health, and well-being of Mongolian society. Rossabi demonstrates that the agencies providing grants and loans insisted on Mongolia's adherence to a set of policies that did not generally take into account the country's unique heritage and society. Though the sale of state assets, minimalist government, liberalization of trade and prices, a balanced budget, and austerity were supposed to yield marked economic growth, Mongolia-the world's fifth-largest per capita recipient of foreign aid-did not recover as expected. As he details this painful transition from a collective to a capitalist economy, Rossabi also analyzes the cultural effects of the sudden opening of Mongolia to democracy. He looks at the broader implications of Mongolia's international situation and considers its future, particularly in relation to China. 517 3 $aFrom khans to commissars to capitalists 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / General$2bisacsh 607 $aMongolia$xHistory 607 $aMongolia$xHistory$y1990- 610 $aasia scholars. 610 $aasian studies. 610 $abusiness and industry. 610 $acapitalism. 610 $acapitalist society. 610 $achina. 610 $acivic. 610 $acommissars. 610 $acommunism. 610 $aeconomic growth. 610 $aeconomic history. 610 $aforeign aid. 610 $ahistory. 610 $ainternational financial agencies. 610 $ainternational relations. 610 $akhans. 610 $aminimalist government. 610 $amodern history. 610 $amoney. 610 $amongolia. 610 $amongolian history. 610 $amongolian society. 610 $apolitical history. 610 $apolitical science. 610 $apoverty. 610 $apure market economy. 610 $aretrospective. 610 $arussia. 610 $asoviet union. 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / General. 676 $a951.7/3 700 $aRossabi$b Morris$0538525 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783312103321 996 $aModern Mongolia$93678628 997 $aUNINA