Thursday, June 27 2019, 16:09
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Wednesday, May 29 2019, 20:45
ArmInfo.Against the background of political turbulence associated with the "velvet revolution" in April-May 2018, the Armenian banking system demonstrated high reliability, maintaining a previously reached sufficient level of liquidity, strong capitalization, healthy loan portfolio, substantial deposit base and moderate profitability, this is stated in the regular industry research of Armenia's banking system prepared by experts of AmRating national rating agency in cooperation with European Rating-Agentur Expert RA GmbH ( https://raexpert.eu/files/Industry_report_Armenia_Banks_27.05.2019.pdf ) As it is noted in the report, the new economic policy of the government, headed by the leader of the "velvet revolution" and Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, differs in many ways from the former highly corrupt system, which was built up with the existence of the so-called "shadow economy". The new policy's significant adjustments of ingrained economic life affected some spheres of the economy and, as a result, influenced to some extent macroeconomic indicators. |
Wednesday, May 29 2019, 19:30
ArmInfo.The Ministry of Finance of Armenia is working on a legislative initiative involving the revision of property tax. New adjustments are likely to take effect not from January 2020, as planned earlier, but from January 1, 2021. Meanwhile, the Tax Code of 2016 envisaged a transition to a new order from 2019. |
Wednesday, May 29 2019, 15:03
ArmInfo.The "Assistance in the management of tax administration and policy" program, which is a continuation of many years of cooperation between the World Bank (WB), the Government of Armenia and the State Revenue Committee (SRC), aims to improve the efficiency of tax policy and create a transparent tax system. |
Wednesday, May 22 2019, 16:18
ArmInfo. Armenia's GDP grew in the Q1 of 2019 by 7.1% per annum - to 1.2 trillion drams ($ 2.6 billion), against a higher growth in the Q1 of 2018 - by 9.7% per annum. According to the data of the RA Statistical Committee, the GDP deflator index in the Q1 of 2019 was 103.8%, against 104.3% in the Q1 of 2018. |
Monday, May 20 2019, 20:58
ArmInfo. The IMF approved the provision of Stand-by loans to Armenia in the amount of about $ 248.2 million. The press service of the Central Bank told ArmInfo that the Armenian authorities stated that these loans would be considered a preventive measure and would not be used until There will be no problems with the balance of payments. |
Tuesday, May 14 2019, 19:24
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Tuesday, May 7 2019, 11:20
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Monday, May 6 2019, 17:25
ArmInfo.Gross international reserves of Armenia for the Q1 of 2019 amounted to $ 2.151 billion. This is evidenced by the data of the Central Bank of Armenia. Of these, the lion's share - $ 2.149 billion accounted for external assets in hard currency, and the share of SDR in the IMF was $ 2.1 million. |
Monday, May 6 2019, 15:25
ArmInfo. In Armenia, economic activity in Q1 of 2019 compared with Q1 of 2018 increased by 6.5%. According to the final data of the RA Statistical Committee, the growth sector was the service sector - 17.3%, the construction sector - 10.8% and the trade sector - 10.1%, against which growth of the industrial sector looked too modest - 2%, and the agricultural sector and energy complex showed a decline of 0.2% and 14%, respectively. In comparison with last year's pace, growth was accelerated in the service sector, growth slowed down in trade, construction, and the industrial sector, while the agricultural sector and the energy complex shifted from growth to recession. |
Friday, April 26 2019, 20:30
ArmInfo.In Armenia, the economic activity in January-March 2019 compared with January-March 2018 increased by 6.5%. According to preliminary data of the RA Statistical Committee, the growth sector was made up by the service sector - 17.3%, the construction sector - 10.8% and the trade sector - 10.1%, against which growth of the industrial sector looked too modest - 2%, and the agricultural sector and energy complex showed a decline of 0.2% and 14%, respectively. In comparison with last year's pace, growth was accelerated in the service sector, growth slowed down in trade, construction, and the industrial sector, while the agricultural sector and the energy complex shifted from growth to recession.A year earlier, in January-March 2018, by January-March 2017, economic activity increased by 10.6%, amid growing exports by 34.4% and imports by 39%. |
Thursday, April 25 2019, 13:02
ArmInfo. According to Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) forecasts, GDP growth in Armenia in 2019 will accelerate to 5.3% from actual 5.2% in 2018. This is noted in the macroeconomic review of Armenia prepared by the Directorate for Analytical Work of the EDB. For 2020, the EDB predicts a slowdown in GDP growth to 4.6% with a subsequent acceleration in 2021 to 5.1%. |
Monday, April 15 2019, 11:25
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Saturday, April 13 2019, 21:37
ArmInfo. In the framework of the plenary meeting of the spring session of the IMF / WB and the annual meeting of 2019 of the Governing Boards of the IMF and the WB Group, a number of meetings were held. The Central Bank's press service told ArmInfo that Central Bank Chairman Artur Javadyan met with IMF Deputy Managing Director Tao Zhang, IMF Regional Director for the Middle East and Central Asia Jihad Azour, IMF Dutch Sub-Group Executive Director Anthony De Lannoy. |
Friday, April 12 2019, 16:24
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Thursday, April 11 2019, 14:55
ArmInfo.Head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Investments of Armenia, Tigran Khachatryan, believes that the republic can afford to reconsider the upper permissible threshold of state debt "if there are plans to spend loans in areas that guarantee results." He stated this on April 11 in an interview with journalists. |
Monday, April 8 2019, 15:13
ArmInfo. The restrictions imposed in 2018 related to the legislative regulation of the ratio of public debt to GDP were not an end in themselves and the revision of these parameters is fraught with consequences. Former Minister of Finance of Armenia Vardan Aramyan expressed this opinion in an exclusive interview with ArmInfo. |
Friday, March 29 2019, 17:23
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Thursday, March 28 2019, 17:35
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