{"id":91693,"date":"2015-10-01T15:04:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2015\/10\/01\/243602\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:20:16","slug":"private-remittances-to-armenia-in-august-down-38-3-from-the-year-before-central-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2015\/10\/01\/91693\/","title":{"rendered":"Private remittances to Armenia in august down 38.3% from the year before- central bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YEREVAN, October 1. \/ ARKA \/.<\/strong> Private remittances to Armenia sent via banks for non-commercial purposes in 2015 August were 38.3% down from the year before totaling $114.7 million, the Central Bank of Armenia said in a statement posted on its official website.<\/p>\n<p>It said money transfers to Armenia in 2015 August alone fell by 16.4% from the previous month of July.<br \/>\nRemittances from Armenia abroad totaled $27.4 million in 2015 August, down from $29.7 million in 2014 August. The net inflow of remittances in 2015 August amounted to approximately $87.2 million, down from $156 million in 2014 August.<\/p>\n<p>As usual Russia accounts for the bulk of remittances sent to Armenia largely by labor migrants &#8211; about 79% of the total. Money transfers from Russia to Armenia decreased by 44% compared with August 2014 to approximately $90.6 million and a 19.5% decline from the previous month, while money transfers from Armenia to the Russian Federation grew by 7.9% to $17. 9 million, actually as much as was transferred in 2015 July, the Central bank said.<\/p>\n<p>Remittances to Armenia in 2014 decreased by 7.5% to $1.73 billion (15.7% of the GDP). The decline was blamed on the dramatic devaluation of the Russian ruble. The Central Bank expects private money transfers to Armenia to drop this year by 25%.-0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private remittances to Armenia sent via banks for non-commercial purposes in 2015 August were 38.3% down from the year before totaling $114.7 million, the Central Bank of Armenia said in a statement posted on its official website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12159,9216],"tags":[15837,15865,14026],"class_list":{"0":"post-91693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-exchange-market","8":"category-news","9":"tag-armenia-2","10":"tag-central-bank-2","11":"tag-private-remittances"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693","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=91693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}