While summing up economic year in January and introducing anticipations for the upcoming year Azerbaijani president stated that “The biggest blow to the national economy was recorded from the side of the banking system.”
Economic growth of the first two months of ongoing year was impressive-about 6%. Double digit growth indices for industry and services, foreign trade were impressive as well. However, there is one index, which doesn’t comply with the temp of economic activity. It refers to real estate market.
Armenia’s state debt as of February 2017 comprised AMD 2 trillion 901.3 billion or USD 5 billion 961.2 million. Compared with the beginning of the year Armenia’s state debt has grown by USD 25.7 billion, from which: government’s external debt in USD expression almost hasn’t changed, it remained within USD 4.3 billion.
Central Electoral Commission (CEC) of Armenia has calculated preliminary results of parliamentary elections held on April 2 based on data received from all 2009 polling stations.
National Statistical Service of Armenia issued statistics of investments for 2016. As April 1 is the silence day of election campaign, we won’t reflect to promises of political powers and their programs. Instead, we’ll introduce what snapshot we had in 2016, how much investments we had, from which countries and in which fields.
Foreign investments have become one of the most contemporary promises of this election campaign. Almost all promise investments, some—many, some—few, some give exact numbers and some—not.
From the beginning of the week abundance of Iranian tourists was observed in the capital. Novruz Bayram—New Year of Iranians has brought them to Armenia, which starts from the fourth week of March and lasts for 13 days. In the period of those two weeks Armenia welcomes 20-25 thousand Iranians.
Based on result of the first two months of ongoing year economic activity index (EAI) comprised 6.2% (compared with January-February of the previous year). On monthly basis February 2017 compared with February 2017 economic activity grew by 6%.
The requirement of mandatory audit for big companies is coming back, i.e. big companies will have to publish their reports after they are inspected by an independent auditor. This is a rather crucial event in the economic life, which remained in the shadow of pre-election turmoil.
This election campaign differs from the previous ones. It varies not only by amended Constitution, but by the very content of the campaign.
