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A trail of contracting fiascos

Oct. 24, 2015: An editor’s note has been added to this article. In 2006, the Mongolian Finance Ministry hired a small Chicago-based consulting firm called Glocoms to strengthen its budget planning. The $1.5-million job, financed by the World Bank, aimed to help a country still grappling with Soviet legacies reallocate its spending and reduce its […]