Ongoing external initiatives, legal reforms, or rapid economic growth can affect the ability of the evaluation to attribute results. Mongolia experienced rapid economic growth from its mining sector along with related property development across its capital city. Moreover, the government rolled out a mortgage subsidy program and extended the ability of individuals to obtain free privatized land. Together these factors made it difficult to quantify how much the project contributed to expected outcomes. In the end, the evaluators were able to partly attribute the development of Mongolia’s land markets to the Registry System and Process Survey activity combined with the institutional and legal reforms. Qualitative data combined with looking at administrative data trends can help clarify the context around household survey findings.
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