YEREVAN, December 4. /ARKA/. The amount of loans received by Armenia from international lending organizations by the end of first half of 2015 grew by 11.6% or 30.1 billion drams from the year before to the equivalent of 289.4 billion drams, according to a Central Bank study on the composition and structure of credit investments and borrowed funds of banks and credit organizations from June 2014 to June 2015.
According to the study, these loans made 14.2% of total credit investments at the end of first half.
In Yerevan the amount of loans received from international lending organizations increased by 19.1% to 207.6 billion drams. In Armenian provinces and the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic they dropped by 3.8% to 81.8 billion drams.
According to the study, total credit investments of Armenian banks in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh during the reporting period amounted to 2 trillion and 40 billion drams, having increased by 9%. ($ 1- 484.59 drams). -0-