{"id":7857,"date":"2010-02-18T13:04:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T13:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2010\/02\/18\/230637\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T12:46:20","slug":"imf-outlook-armenia-to-record-6-inflation-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2010\/02\/18\/7857\/","title":{"rendered":"IMF outlook: Armenia to record 6% inflation in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 18. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Armenia will record 6% inflation in 2010, Mark Lewis, the head of International Monetary Fund\u2019s mission in Armenia, said Wednesday at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks that impacts of outside factors would weaken in 2010, and despite anticipated rise in regulated prices, such as prices for gas, inflation rate will go down.<br \/>\nArmenia recorded 1.7% inflation in January 2010, compared with December 2009, due to season change in prices for some foods.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis thinks that inflation rise in 2009 was mainly due to outside factors.<br \/>\nHe said Armenian dram devaluation in the beginning of that year and changes in world prices for some goods fueled inflation as well.<\/p>\n<p>Consumer prices went 6.5% up in December 2009, compared with December 2008.<br \/>\nLewis said that higher-than-usual inflation will remain in Armenia several months, but in mid-2010 it will start downward movement.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian government has planned 4 \u00b11.5% inflation in the 2010 state budget. &#8212;0&#8212;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia will record 6% inflation in 2010, Mark Lewis, the head of International Monetary Fund\u2019s mission in Armenia, said Wednesday at a news conference.<\/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":[15837,15917,12225,334],"class_list":{"0":"post-7857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy-en","7":"category-news","8":"tag-armenia-2","9":"tag-imf-2","10":"tag-inflation","11":"tag-334"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857","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=7857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}