{"id":806,"date":"2010-05-12T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=806"},"modified":"2010-05-12T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:03:10","slug":"armenias-economy-the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"Armenia&#8217;s Economy: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the numbers on Armenia&#8217;s foreign remittances are in, and Russia tops the charts. Transfers to Armenia from Russia accounted for $162.8 million out of $261.7 million in total remittances for the first three months of 2010,\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panarmenian.net\/eng\/economy\/news\/48413\/Private_remittances_to_Armenia_totaled_2617mln_in_first_quarter_of_2010\" target=\"_blank\">Armenia&#8217;s Central Bank reports.<\/a> The US finished a distant second with $29.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers make for a slight &#8212; less than half a percent &#8212; drop compared with 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment statistics, in theory, are similarly static. The State Employment Service claims that unemployment &#8220;stabilized&#8221; at 7.3 percent as of May,\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurasianet.org\/node\/%20http:\/\/armenianow.com\/social\/23003\/unemployment_armenia\" target=\"_blank\">ArmeniaNow reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some critics may counter that it all depends on how you count it. Research performed &#8220;according to International Labor Organization standards&#8221; puts Armenia&#8217;s &#8220;real&#8221; unemployment rate at a whopping 27.5 percent,\u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.panarmenian.net\/eng\/economy\/news\/48393\/Armenian_economy_growth_helped_maintain_employment_rate\" target=\"_blank\">says PanArmenian.net.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>eurasianet.org<\/p>\n<p>photo by \u0569\u0082\u0539\u00a0asbarez.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Once again, the numbers on Armenia&#8217;s foreign remittances are in, and Russia tops the charts. Transfers to Armenia from Russia accounted for $162.8 million out of $261.7 million in total remittances for the first three <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/?p=806\" title=\"Armenia&#8217;s Economy: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aaeurop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}