{"id":101221,"date":"2016-09-08T16:21:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T16:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2016\/09\/08\/245170\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:25:18","slug":"august-deflation-in-armenia-was-1-9-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2016\/09\/08\/101221\/","title":{"rendered":"August deflation in Armenia was 1.9 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, September 8. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Consumer prices in August 2016 were 1.9% down when compared with 2015 August, the National Statistical Service of Armenia (NSS) said today.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NSS, prices of food products (including alcoholic beverages and tobacco) fell by 3.1% year-on-year, non-food products were down by 3.4%, while services grew by 0.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, consumer prices for the first six months of 2016 were 1.6% down when compared to the same time span of 2015. Prices for foodstuff (including alcoholic beverages and cigarettes) fell by 3.8%, non-food products \u2013 by 1.9%, while services grew by 2.3%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NSS, consumer prices in August 2016 were down by 0.5% from the previous month. It should be noted that consumer prices have been falling in Armenia since February.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s projection of inflation for 2016 is 4% (\u00b1 1.5%); the GDP growth forecast is t 2.2%.\u00a0 &#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer prices in August 2016 were 1.9% down when compared with 2015 August, the National Statistical Service of Armenia (NSS) said today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,13242,12708],"class_list":{"0":"post-101221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-august","11":"tag-deflation"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}