{"id":88268,"date":"2015-06-02T16:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T16:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2015\/06\/02\/242998\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:18:22","slug":"individual-noncommercial-transfers-to-armenia-shrink-28-to-about-95-9-million-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2015\/06\/02\/88268\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual noncommercial transfers to Armenia shrink 28% to about $95.9 million in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, June 2. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Individuals in Armenia received $95.9 million from abroad via banks in April 2015 for noncommecial purposes \u2013 28% less than in April 2014, but 14.2% more than in March 2015, the Central Bank of Armenia reports on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Money transfers from Armenia totaled about $26.8 million in April 2015 against $30.3 million in the same month a year before and net inflow amounted to $69.1 million against $102.9 million respectively.<br \/>\nMoney transfers from Russia dominate the remittances coming to Armenia from the outside. They make up 73.4% of the counrty&#8217;s total remittances.<\/p>\n<p>The inflow of transfers from Russia dwindled by 35% in April 2015, compared with the same month a year earlier, to about $70.4 million (18.6% month-on-month growth), and outflow from Armenia to Russia fell 10.2% over one year and 18.7% over one month to $16 million.<\/p>\n<p>Money transfers to Armenia shrank 7.5% in 2014 to $1.73 billion or 15.7% of the country\u2019s GDP.<\/p>\n<p>Decline in individual transfers in 2014 was mainly due to the contraction in money transfers from Russia caused by the then devaluation of the Russian ruble, which had plunged 50% against the US dollar since the beginning of that year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the central bank&#8217;s forecast, individual transfers will reduce 25% in 2015. ($1 \u2013 AMD 480.62). &#8211;0&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individuals in Armenia received $95.9 million from abroad via banks in April 2015 for noncommecial purposes \u2013 28% less than in April 2014, but 14.2% more than in March 2015, the Central Bank of Armenia reports on its website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[15837,13089,15587],"class_list":{"0":"post-88268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-individual","11":"tag-transfer-2"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88268","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=88268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}