Book excerpt: This was the brochure that launched the Partnership for Progress between the United Nations and the Government of Mongolia in 1997. Launched in the middle of a severe economic crisis, it details the state-of-play in Mongolia in the late 1990s, and how UNDP would address it. The mission simultaneously had to deal with the 1997 Asian Crisis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Asian_financial_crisis) and the worst peacetime economic collapse in post-WWII history.