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“They just wasted billions of tugriks on useless stoves and processed coal, which don’t change anything.”

But its fortunes rapidly reversed - in August last year the collapse of commodity prices made Mongolia's tugrik the world's worst-performing currency.

The downturn led to the Mongolian currency, the tugrik, becoming the world's worst performing currency in August last year.

Mongolia plunged into an economic and financial crisis last year after a collapse in commodity prices eroded growth and sent its currency, the tugrik, plummeting.

Mongolians are already struggling with an economic crisis which has seen the currency, the tugrik, depreciate rapidly, making household goods more expensive.