{"id":107816,"date":"2017-05-25T10:32:21","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T10:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2017\/05\/25\/246332\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:29:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:29:30","slug":"armenia-actually-not-ready-for-foreign-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2017\/05\/25\/107816\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia actually not ready for foreign investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 25. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Today Armenia is actually not ready for foreign investments, former head of the Central Bank Bagrat Asatryan told journalists on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis doesn\u2019t mean that there will be no investments \u2013 there will be some initiatives and even successfully implemented projects, will this will not men that the entire world will strive for investing in Armenia\u2019s territory and our citizens will have a chance to implement their projects,\u201d he said. \u201cAn ordinary individual can\u2019t invest money in Armenia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asatryan pointed out that Armenia is not interesting in terms of investment. It is necessary, he said, to create favorable environment for attracting foreign investments \u2013 otherwise, Armenia will become \u2018a new-type ghetto\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Armenian economy ministry says direct foreign investments in Armenia\u2019s economy are expected to total $150 to 200 million in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to official reports, $92 million has come to Armenia in Jan-Sept 2016 as direct foreign investments.<\/p>\n<p>The economy ministry intends to build up the share of foreign investments in the country\u2019s GDP from the present 1% to 5% very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Karapetyan, prime minister, declared earlier that there was a $5.3-billion investment program, where clear investment projects amounting to $3.2 billion were presented. &#8211;0&#8212;-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Armenia is actually not ready for foreign investments, former head of the Central Bank Bagrat Asatryan told journalists on Wednesday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,13363,14460,483],"class_list":{"0":"post-107816","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-bagrat-asatryan","11":"tag-foreign-investments","12":"tag-483"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107816","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=107816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}