{"id":73442,"date":"2014-03-24T15:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2014\/03\/24\/240511\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:10:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:10:34","slug":"imf-expects-armenian-governments-budget-deficit-in-2014-to-make-over-2-of-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2014\/03\/24\/73442\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF expects Armenian government\u2019s budget deficit in 2014 to make over 2% of GDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, March 24. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> The International Monetary Fund (MF) expects Armenian government\u2019s budget deficit in 2014 to make a little over 2% of GDP, which will be an important stimulus for economic growth, according to head of IMF Armenia Mission Mark Horton.<\/p>\n<p>He said the IMF expects Armenia\u2019s spending this year to return to its natural rate, and the deficit will be much larger (than last year), exceeding 2% of GDP, which will be an important stimulus for economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>He recalled that in 2013 the budget deficit was smallest and balanced, which was mainly due to the difficulties in the implementation of some large-scale spending programs, in particular the North-South transport corridor and a new legal regulation of the procurement process, the purpose of which was to make it clearer and more transparent.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s budget calls for 1.135 trillion drams in revenue and 1.245 trillion in spending. The projected budget deficit is 110 billion drams or 2.3% of GDP; the current account deficit is projected at- 8.6%. ($ 1 &#8211; 414.54 drams). -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Monetary Fund (MF) expects Armenian government\u2019s budget deficit in 2014 to make a little over 2% of GDP, which will be an important stimulus for economic growth, according to head of IMF Armenia Mission Mark Horton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,12344,15917],"class_list":{"0":"post-73442","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-gdp","11":"tag-imf-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73442","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=73442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}