{"id":44803,"date":"2012-12-04T11:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2012\/12\/04\/237053\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:01:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:01:15","slug":"armenias-foreign-debt-grows-to-about-3-8-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2012\/12\/04\/44803\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia\u2019s foreign debt grows to about $3.8 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 4. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> Armenia\u2019s state foreign debt increased by 4.8 percent ($172.6 million) from the beginning of the year to more than $ 3.740.8 billion as of  late September, according to numbers released today by National Statistical Service (ArmStat).<\/p>\n<p>It said 84 percent of that amount or $3.146.1 billion were owed by the government. The government debt was said to have increased in the first nine months by 6.6 percent. The Central Bank accounted for 15.9% or $ 594.7 million of the debt, down 3.7% from December 30, 2011. Some 70.3% of foreign debt or $2.630.8 billion were owed to international financial institutions (up 6.3% when compared to December 30, 2011).<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the debt to World Bank amounted to $1.457.3 billion, or 39.1% of the total external debt (up 9%). The debt to the IMF amounted to $ 789.6 million (or 21.1% of the total debt), by 4.6 percent down from the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia\u2019s debt to the Asian Development Bank stood at $184.1 million at the end of September 2012, up from $165.3 million on December 30, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian government owed also $68.2 million to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), up from $66.3 million as of  December 30, 2011 and $27.5 million to OPEC Fund, down 2.9 percent from December 30, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia also owes $500 million to Russia (29.7 percent of the total debt; unchanged compared to December 30, 2011) and $397.2 million to Japan, down 0.8% from the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia\u2019s debt to Germany stood at $173.7 million,  up 12.1%; the debt  to the U.S. fell by 6.1% to $29.2 million, and the debt to France dropped from $4 million to $ 3.9 million ($ 1 \u2013 405. 92 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s state foreign debt increased by 4.8 percent ($172.6 million) from the beginning of the year to more than $ 3.740.8 billion as of late September, according to numbers released today by National Statistical Service (ArmStat)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,12347],"class_list":{"0":"post-44803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-armenia-2","9":"tag-foreign-debt"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44803","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=44803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}