IMF Staff Country Reports

Armenia: Recent Economic Developments

December 19, 1995

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Armenia: Recent Economic Developments, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed November 29, 2024

Summary

This paper reviews economic developments in the Republic of Armenia during the 1990s. Real GDP declined by a cumulative 60 percent in 1992–93; price changes reached hyperinflation levels in late 1993; and real wages declined by nearly 50 percent in the course of that year. In the fall of 1994, the authorities formulated a comprehensive program of stabilization and structural reform that was supported in December 1994 by a first purchase under the Systemic Transformation Facility.

Subject: Banking, Currencies, Current spending, Expenditure, Imports, International trade, Money, Revenue administration

Keywords: Banking system, Broad money, Capital expenditure, Central bank, CR, Currencies, Current spending, Debt service, Exchange rate, First quarter, Foreign currency, Imports, ISCR, Second quarter, State enterprise, State government

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    156

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1995/111

  • Stock No:

    1ARMEA0011995

  • ISBN:

    9781451801408

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685

Notes

This paper on recent economic developments was prepared by a staff team of the International Monetary Fund as background documentation for the periodic consultation with this member country. As such, the views expressed in this document are those of the staff team and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, or the Executive Board of the IMF.