Transformationsprozesse in Recht und Wirtschaft der Mongolei seit 1990Dietrich Nelle

ASIEN – Nr. 87 (2003) pp. 5–29

In the last decade Mongolia has proven to be one of the most rapidly advancing countries in transition. Amazingly simultaneous with the events in Eastern Germany Mongolia undertook profound political changes and held free, democratic elections as early as 1990. The political changes implied also economic reforms, radically opening the internal markets and making Mongolia the first transition country to join the World Trade Organization (WTO). At the same time, legal reforms pressed ahead, with a new, democratic Constitution and drastic changes in virtually all areas of law from 1990 to 2000, drawing mainly upon the experiences from the Russian transition process, continental European (and especially German) concepts and inputs from other Asian countries, especially Japan. The current second phase of transition is aiming to harmonize and solidify these reforms, to adapt them where necessary to Mongolian realities and to enhance their effective implementation.