CONSTRUCTION SECTOR SECURES ECONOMIC GROWTH
As of January-August 2006, a high pace of economic growth was secured in Armenia. RA National Statistic Service informed about this. The indicator of the economic growth made 11,3%. As compared to the first six months, it has decreased and amounted to %16. While the growth of the construction volume made 40,2% in the period under review and the total area of dwelling houses made 28,7%.
The total volume of industrial production decreased by 0,9%, without the volume of electricity, gas and water production, it made 0,7% and without the volume of diamond production, it increased by 2,1%.
The foreign trade turnover increased by 11,5%. The export decreased by 3,4% making $ 595 million, import increased by 20% and totaled to $1,3 billion. Without the article of the diamond production, it grew by 2,6%, while the import increased by 28,4%. The negative balance of the foreign trade increased and surpassed $ 700 million.
As compared with the indicator of December, 2005, the consumers’ prices increased by 2,7 %. At the same time, the currency profits of the population grew by 18,7%, while the expenses increased by 20,5%.
- By Ara Martirosian
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- 1920 Dissolution, by the French government, of the voluntary Eastern Legion - comprised of Armenian survivors of the Genocide. The Legion fought Turkish forces with the Allies and was to be stationed in Cilicia after the war. France never honored its promises.
- 1921 Death of Mkrteetsh Portoogalyan, literary and public figure. He was born in 1846.
- 1921 Death of Mkrtich Portoogalyan (public figure) in Marseilles (France). He was born in 1848 in Constantinople.
- 1960 The Atarbekyan hydro-electric power station at Aghstafa starts production with a network of 108 kilometers of high-voltage lines.
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