{"id":146657,"date":"2023-01-11T14:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T14:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2023\/01\/11\/250702\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:50:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:50:03","slug":"ex-finance-minister-says-there-are-3-factors-behind-strong-growth-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2023\/01\/11\/146657\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-finance\u00a0minister\u00a0says there are 3 factors behind strong growth in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, January 11. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Former Armenian Minister of Finance Vardan Aramyan says there are three factors behind Armenia&#8217;s\u00a0strong\u00a0growth in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The growth potential of our economy is estimated at 4-5%; this is indisputable. If we had 14.4% GDP growth (in 2022), we should trace the factors behind it,&#8221; Aramyan said in an interview with the Public Television of Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He listed three factors:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1)&nbsp;individual&nbsp;remittances from Russia, which have tripled as a result of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) The number of visitors to the country<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3) exports, which recorded an unprecedented 70% growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;But we have to consider whether we really have this kind of economic potential and what we are exporting. In particular, exports of cars and machinery have increased unprecedentedly \u2013&nbsp;but&nbsp;do we produce these goods and&nbsp;in that quantity?&#8221; asks the former minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In that context, Aramyan pointed out that in reality, the increase in car exports from Armenia is connected with&nbsp;western&nbsp;sanctions&nbsp;slapped on&nbsp;Russia,&nbsp;forcing it to&nbsp;allow&nbsp;so-called&nbsp;parallel imports from the Eurasian Economic Union&#8217;s member countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Economy Minister Vahan Kerobyan said that according to forecasts, Armenia&#8217;s economic expansion in 2022 would amount to 13-14%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Ministry of Economy, about 1.67 million tourists visited Armenia in 2022, down from 1.89 million in pre-pandemic 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to some estimates, about 100,000 Russian nationals have decided to stay in Armenia because of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict &#8211;0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Armenian Minister of Finance Vardan Aramyan says there are three factors behind Armenia&#8217;s\u00a0strong\u00a0growth in 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":159730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146657","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=146657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}