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  "title": "Mongolia: 2026 Article IV Consultation Discussions-Press Release; and Staff Report",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 6, 2026",
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  "summary": "Mongolia has benefited from a multi-year mining boom, strong growth, and decreasing external and fiscal vulnerabilities. Yet the economy remains exposed to commodity price shocks.",
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- Mongolia has benefited from a multi-year mining boom, strong growth, and decreasing external and fiscal vulnerabilities.\n- The economy remains exposed to commodity price shocks.\n- Lower coal prices since early 2025 have already led to revenue shortfalls.\n- Political pressures to raise expenditure are intense.\n- The fiscal position is projected to deteriorate, given large public wage and pension increases, and non-mining tax cuts, reversing recent gains in reducing vulnerabilities.\n- Political uncertainty and risks of policy slippages will likely increase ahead of the 2027–28 presidential and parliamentary elections."
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    {
      "heading": "Risks and outlook",
      "content": "- Commodity price volatility (notably coal) has produced immediate revenue shortfalls as of early 2025.\n- Fiscal deterioration is projected due to:\n  - large public wage increases;\n  - large pension increases;\n  - non-mining tax cuts.\n- Political uncertainty ahead of the 2027–28 presidential and parliamentary elections raises the likelihood of policy slippages."
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    "Published: August 6, 2026",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229057592.002",
    "Mongolia has benefited from a multi-year mining boom, strong growth, and decreasing external and fiscal vulnerabilities.",
    "The economy remains exposed to commodity price shocks.",
    "Lower coal prices since early 2025 have already led to revenue shortfalls.",
    "Political pressures to raise expenditure are intense.",
    "The fiscal position is projected to deteriorate, given large public wage and pension increases, and non-mining tax cuts, reversing recent gains in reducing vulnerabilities.",
    "Political uncertainty and risks of policy slippages will likely increase ahead of the 2027–28 presidential and parliamentary elections.",
    "Commodity price volatility (notably coal) has produced immediate revenue shortfalls as of early 2025.",
    "Fiscal deterioration is projected due to:",
    "Political uncertainty ahead of the 2027–28 presidential and parliamentary elections raises the likelihood of policy slippages."
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