{"id":101976,"date":"2016-10-05T12:42:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2016\/10\/05\/245269\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:25:37","slug":"private-remittances-to-armenia-in-august-2016-grew-by-0-48-from-july-to-146-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2016\/10\/05\/101976\/","title":{"rendered":"Private remittances to Armenia in august 2016 grew by 0.48% from July to $146.3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, October 5. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> Private remittances sent to Armenia in August 2016 through banks grew by 0.48% from the previous month to $146.3 million, the Central Bank said today. However, if compared with 2015 August their amount was down by 8.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Remittances sent from Armenia abroad totaled about $60.1 million, an increase of 4.8% when compared to August 2015. Compared to July 2016 they were up 6.6%. Thus, the net inflow of remittances in 2016 August amounted to approximately $86.2 million, a decrease of 15.8% over the same period last year and a 3.4% drop if compared to 2016 July.<\/p>\n<p>Russia accounted for approximately 68.8% of all remittances. In the past years, its share stood at 70-80%. More specifically, remittances from Russia in August 2016 amounted to approximately $100.7 million, an increase of 8.6% compared to August 2015 and a 5% increase over the previous month. Remittances from Armenia to Russia increased by 3.6 % when compared to 2015 August to $22.3 million, but if compared to July 2016 they were down by 2.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian Central Bank expects the amount of remittances to the country to drop by 6-8% this year from the previous year<\/p>\n<p>In 2015 remittances slashed by 30% to $1.2 billion, largely due to huge devaluation of the Russian ruble. ($ 1 &#8211; 474.36 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private remittances sent to Armenia in August 2016 through banks grew by 0.48% from the previous month to $146.3 million, the Central Bank said today<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,13500,14026,568],"class_list":{"0":"post-101976","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-july","11":"tag-private-remittances","12":"tag-568"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101976","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=101976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}