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FORMER HEAD OF CENTRAL BANK: 30% OF ARMENIA'S POPULATION LIVE IN PENURY
ARKA
Sep 22, 2011
YEREVAN, September 22. /ARKA/. People living beyond poverty line
constitute 30% of Armenia's population, Bagrat Asatryan, former
chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia, said Thursday at a news
conference.
He said that the gap between the poor and the rich is wider than in
any post-soviet country and social tension is more acute. Things grew
worse in the recent three years, after the 2008 crisis.
Asatryan also singled out the share of economically active people in
the country's population among Armenia's biggest troubles.
"Some 1.2 million people are economically active," he said. "Of them,
some 500,000 are people working in rural areas."
Asatryan said referring to statistical reports that if one has even
one pear tree in his garden, he is viewed as an employed person.
He said that these 500,000 people employed in Armenia's farms produce
as much as 20,000 or 25,000 produce in developed countries, such
as Israel.
It can be concluded that at least 400,000 people in Armenia are
jobless.
According to the latest official statistical reports, the poor
constituted 34.1% of Armenia's population in 2009 against 27.6%
in 2008.
It means some 214,000 people were rendered poor over one year - 23.6%
year-on-year increase.
About 1.1 million people in Armenia lived in poverty in 2009.
ARKA
Sep 22, 2011
YEREVAN, September 22. /ARKA/. People living beyond poverty line
constitute 30% of Armenia's population, Bagrat Asatryan, former
chairman of the Central Bank of Armenia, said Thursday at a news
conference.
He said that the gap between the poor and the rich is wider than in
any post-soviet country and social tension is more acute. Things grew
worse in the recent three years, after the 2008 crisis.
Asatryan also singled out the share of economically active people in
the country's population among Armenia's biggest troubles.
"Some 1.2 million people are economically active," he said. "Of them,
some 500,000 are people working in rural areas."
Asatryan said referring to statistical reports that if one has even
one pear tree in his garden, he is viewed as an employed person.
He said that these 500,000 people employed in Armenia's farms produce
as much as 20,000 or 25,000 produce in developed countries, such
as Israel.
It can be concluded that at least 400,000 people in Armenia are
jobless.
According to the latest official statistical reports, the poor
constituted 34.1% of Armenia's population in 2009 against 27.6%
in 2008.
It means some 214,000 people were rendered poor over one year - 23.6%
year-on-year increase.
About 1.1 million people in Armenia lived in poverty in 2009.