{"id":3957,"date":"2023-11-21T12:13:19","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/news\/3957\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T11:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T07:02:50","slug":"hh-tntesakan-atchi-pattcharneric-mekeh-rd-i-dem-ashxarhi-patzhamijocnern-en-tntesaget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/3957\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist: One of the reasons for the economic growth in Armenia is the international sanctions against Russia 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; \">The ruling political power of Armenia keeps claiming that<br>\nthey have achieved double-digit economic growth. They stated this at the<br>\nNational Assembly as well. The MPs from the Civil Contract Party are not even<br>\nbothered about the fact that economists come up with the counterevidence. This<br>\nvery economic growth is caused by external factors, which have nothing to do<br>\nwith the policies of the RA government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&ldquo;This 12.6% economic growth was mainly caused by a random<br>\nexternal factor. This is due to the favorable economic environment created as a<br>\nresult of the Russian-Ukrainian war. Why am I calling this factor random?<br>\nBecause it was external and had nothing to do with our economic capacity,&rdquo;<br>\nEconomist, NA MP Tadevos Avetisyan said to ABC Media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><p><\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of the reasons for the economic growth in Armenia is the<br>\ninternational sanctions against Russia. However, the authorities are convinced<br>\nthat this is not the case; they claim that tourism has developed.&nbsp;<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>&ldquo;They call it tourism, but the reality of the situation is<br>\nthat Russian citizens came to Armenia; our exports to Russia doubled. This was<br>\nnot because our product quality improved, but because we exported products that<br>\nRussia could not import from other countries, being under economic sanctions,&rdquo;<br>\nAvetisyan noted.<p><\/p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The economist says the claim of the ruling party that they<br>\nhave created conditions for economic growth does not correspond to reality.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The greatest part of the Sotk gold mine is controlled by the<br>\nenemy, the metallurgical plant in Yeraskh, being constructed through foreign<br>\ninvestments, is under fire, and the mountains of Jermuk are in the hands of the<br>\nTurks. A number of mines located in the sovereign territory of Armenia and<br>\nmajor tourist attractions are either under Azerbaijani control or targeted by<br>\nAzerbaijan. All of these constitute obstacles for economic growth. However, the<br>\nauthorities do not seem to be bothered about it.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tadevos Avetisyan referred to economic security factors<br>\nseveral times at the economic committee session in the National Assembly.<br>\nInstead, he received manipulative responses from the authorities.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Avetisyan is concerned about the fact that nowadays, it is<br>\nthe issue of living well that worries people and not the struggle to<br>\nlive.&nbsp;<p><\/p><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; \">The economist says that the authorities, that promised to<br>\neliminate poverty, have not fulfilled any of their pre-election promises.<br>\nInstead, we suffer only losses and pain.<p><\/p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling political power of Armenia keeps claiming that they have achieved double-digit economic growth. They stated this at the National Assembly as well. The MPs from the Civil Contract Party are not even bothered about the fact that economists come up with the counterevidence. This very economic growth is caused by external factors, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}