A man holds a piece of cloth near a washing machine in his home in Ikh Tamir, Mongolia on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. Mongolia, a mineral-rich and landlocked $12 billion economy bordering Russia and China, is staring at a full-blown balance of payments crisis. It’s caused barely a ripple in global financial markets, but the nation’s economic meltdown offers instructive lessons to far bigger resource-reliant economies like Brazil, Venezuela, Russia and Saudi Arabia. Photographer: Taylor Weidman/Bloomberg