Mr. Buyantsogt Asralt, Board member of Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS) and Technical Secretary of Mongolian Transportation Study Center (MTSC), Mr. Jambaa Khashbat, Associate Professor of the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST), and Mr. Sandagdorj Otgonbayar, EPRC Policy Analyst, represented Mongolia at the Eighth EASTS Conference and Expo 2009 held in Surabaya, Indonesia, during 16-20 November. B. Asralt and J. Khashbat presented and discussed a paper on the “Current situation of the transportation sector in Mongolia”, S. Otgonbayar presented and discussed two papers; one on “Estimation of indirect effects of export sector on non export sector: the case of Mongolia” and another on “Public Private Financing the Zamyn Uud Logistics Facility.”
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Wednesday, 04 November 2009 11:23
The Mongolian National TV (MNTV) and UBS TV aired the fourth program of the Hot Topix series six times during the week of Monday 2 November. Produced in collaboration with the Mongolian Railway Authority (MRA), Mongolian Tumur Zum (MTZ) and TransCON LLC, the Transit Mongolia program focused on the constraints to Mongolia’s competitiveness as a transit corridor, including insufficient infrastructure and lack of investment. Introducing facts and figures about the potential of the land transit trade business between China and Europe, the program provided the general public with an understanding of the transit business opportunity that Mongolia might miss entirely.
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Friday, 30 October 2009 16:41
On 30 October 2009 EPRC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Mongolian National University (MNU), School of Economic Studies. The MoU will establish a framework of collaboration between EPRC and MNU’s School of Economic Studies to achieve three main objectives:
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