{"id":118295,"date":"2019-01-10T14:57:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-10T14:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2019\/01\/10\/248173\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:36:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:36:15","slug":"armenias-2018-inflation-was-8-according-to-pashinyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2019\/01\/10\/118295\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia\u2019s 2018 inflation was .8%, according to Pashinyan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, January 10. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong>  Armenia\u2019s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote in a Facebook post today that last year\u2019s inflation was 1.8% . He said at some point the rate of inflation was alarming, but the government was able to curb it. The government\u2019s forecast for 2018 inflation is 4% (\u00b1 1.5%).<br> However, Pashinyn\u2019s figure disagrees with the latest numbers released by the National Statistical Committee, which said the inflation last year was 2.5%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said prices for food products (including alcoholic beverages and tobacco products) increased by 2.5%, while prices for non-food products and services decreased by 4.5% and by 1.2%, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the National Statistics Committee, in 2018 December consumer prices increased by 1.5% year-on-year, driven by an increase in prices for food products and non-alcoholic beverages by 3.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consumer prices in December 2018 as opposed to December 2017 (12-month inflation) increased by 1.8%, prices for food products (including alcoholic beverages and tobacco products) &#8211; by 1.8%, prices for non-food products &#8211; by 3.2% , while services decreased by 0.8%. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan wrote in a Facebook post today that last year\u2019s inflation was 1.8%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,12225,334],"class_list":{"0":"post-118295","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-inflation","11":"tag-334"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118295","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=118295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}