{"id":250284,"date":"2022-04-18T09:32:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2022\/04\/18\/250284\/"},"modified":"2022-04-18T09:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:32:28","slug":"armenian-minister-expects-cost-of-food-groceries-and-other-goods-to-rise-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2022\/04\/18\/250284\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian minister expects cost of food, groceries and other goods to rise further"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, April 18. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0cost of food and groceries as well as other goods is going to rise\u00a0further, Armenian Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenia&#8217;s&nbsp;government budget&nbsp;for 2022&nbsp;projects 2.5%- 5.5% inflation, but at the end of March the 12-month inflation jumped up to 7.4%, and a higher figure is expected for April, the minister said in an interview to Russian business daily Kommersant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kerobyan reminded that natural gas and electricity prices have already risen in the country this year, which is prompting higher prices of other goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Central Bank increased the key refinancing&nbsp;rate by 1.25% point in March, from 8% to 9.25% to try to curb the rising inflation, but the move is slowing the economy, so the government&nbsp;is supporting companies and farmers through complete or partial&nbsp;subsidization of loans for the purchase of new equipment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the National Statistical Committee, the 12-month inflation&nbsp;in Armenia&nbsp;was 7.4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armenia&#8217;s economic growth for 2022 is set at 7%, while inflation is set at 4% (\u00b11.5%). The Central Bank in March worsened its 2022 economic growth forecast from the previous 5.3% to 1.6%. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0cost of food and groceries as well as other goods is going to rise\u00a0further, Armenian Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15497,15849,334],"class_list":{"0":"post-250284","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-15497","10":"tag-15849","11":"tag-334"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250284","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=250284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}