MonInfo reports: Mongolia was making slow progress in its Millennium Development Goals and was not performing satisfactorily on some key targets, according to a new report by three development organizations.

The joint report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the UNDP and Asian Development Bank (ADB), released on October 16, said that while the Asia/Pacific region was on track to achieve most of the Millennium Development Goals, Mongolia had the lowest score on the MDG progress index, and also had a negative score on the MDG status index. Only 23 percent of Mongolia’s exports entered developed countries’ markets free of duties in 2003, down from 71% in 1996. Read more at www.moninfo.org/content/view/301/5/lang,en/