{"id":79052,"date":"2014-09-01T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2014\/09\/01\/241373\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:13:12","slug":"armenias-external-public-debt-decreases-by-1-2-percent-second-quarter-to-3-850-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2014\/09\/01\/79052\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenia\u2019s external public debt decreases by 1.2 percent second quarter to $3.850.4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, September 1. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> Armenia\u2019s external public debt in the second quarter of 2014 decreased by 1.2 percent from the beginning of the year to $3.850.4 billion, according to the National Statistical Service (NSS).<\/p>\n<p>According to NSS data, multilateral loans accounted for about 67.5% of the total debt or almost $2.6 billion. The bulk of the external public debt &#8211; about 41.5%, or about $1.6 billion &#8211; was owed to the World Bank, an increase of 0.8% from the beginning of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian government agencies owed also $24.7 million to EBRD, $41.1 million to the European Investment Bank, $67 million to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), $35 million to OPEC, $251.6 million to the Asian Development Bank, $494.3 million to the IMF and $88.5 million to the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Armenia also owed $559 million in bilateral loans, an increase of 1.9%. The bulk- $299.2 million- was owed to the government of Japan, $222.5 million to Germany, $26.3 million to USA, $5.270 million to France and $5.6 million to Abu Dhabi Development Fund. Government agencies also owed $17.2 million to local commercial banks.<\/p>\n<p>Another $673.5 million were generated by the first-ever sale of Armenian Eurobonds and $1.4 million by non-residents who bought government treasury bonds. At the end of August 2014 Armenia\u2019s total public debt stood at $4.525 billion. -0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenia\u2019s external public debt in the second quarter of 2014 decreased by 1.2 percent from the beginning of the year to $3.850.4 billion, according to the National Statistical Service (NSS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[15837,13600,12857],"class_list":{"0":"post-79052","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-national-statistical-service","11":"tag-percent"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79052","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=79052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}