{"id":274336,"date":"2026-06-10T10:03:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/?p=274336"},"modified":"2026-06-10T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:03:50","slug":"imf-enables-armenias-access-to-about-us25-1-million-under-new-sba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2026\/06\/10\/274336\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF enables Armenia&#8217;s \u00a0access to\u00a0about US$25.1 million under new SBA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YEREVAN, June 10. \/ARKA\/. The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has completed the first review under the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imf.org\/en\/about\/factsheets\/sheets\/2016\/08\/01\/20\/33\/stand-by-arrangement\">Stand-By Arrangement<\/a>&nbsp;(SBA) with Armenia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The completion of the review enables access to&nbsp;an amount equivalent to SDR 18.4 million (about US$25.1 million), bringing total access to SDR 36.8 million (about US$50.2 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The SBA was approved by the IMF\u2019s Board on December 1, 2025. Armenian authorities continue to treat the arrangement as precautionary, IMF said in a press release. &nbsp;The Executive Board\u2019s decision was taken on a lapse-of-time basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to IMF, Armenia\u2019s economic activity remains strong. Real GDP growth is expected to decelerate to around 5\u00bc &nbsp;percent in 2026 as domestic demand softens and some trade disruptions from the war in the Middle East materialize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Decdember 2025, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had concluded the 2025 Article IV consultation, completing the sixth review under the Stand-By Arrangement (SBA), and subsequently cancelled the SBA and approved a new 36-month SBA with Armenia amounting to SDR 128.8 million (100 percent of Armenia\u2019s quota in the IMF or about US$ 175 million).-0-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has completed the first review under the\u00a0Stand-By Arrangement\u00a0(SBA) with Armenia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":206925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,15917],"class_list":["post-274336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy-en","category-news","tag-armenia-2","tag-imf-2"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274336","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274338,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274336\/revisions\/274338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}