{"id":108886,"date":"2017-07-18T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T14:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2017\/07\/18\/246532\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:30:11","slug":"armenian-entrepreneurs-prefer-bank-deposits-to-investment-in-real-economy-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2017\/07\/18\/108886\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian entrepreneurs prefer bank deposits to investment in real economy \u2013 economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, July 18. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Armenian business people prefer bank deposits to investment in the real economy, Artak Manukyan, an economist, told reporters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In his words, deposit resources at Armenia&#8217;s banks have grown 23% since 2015 to $5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This is the only segment in the country&#8217;s economy that is intensively growing despite the downing interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>Manukyan said that despite the falling profitability, bank deposits seem more attractive to entrepreneurs than investments in other areas.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining this, he said that other segments are not so profitable because of the lack of appropriate financial instruments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result, deposits remain the only beneficial and reliable instrument for receiving profits, and economic entities find it reasonable not to invest in the real sector of the economy,\u201d the economist said.<\/p>\n<p>Manukyan pointed out tourism as promising segment for investments. &#8211;0&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian business people prefer bank deposits to investment in the real economy, Artak Manukyan, an economist, told reporters on Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":175102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,15418,12164,12172,12397],"class_list":{"0":"post-108886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-bank-en-2","11":"tag-deposits","12":"tag-economy-en","13":"tag-investment"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108886","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=108886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}