Although the government’s negative opinion will be confirmed on the January 19 session by the Ministry of Territorial Administration www.news.am reports that ARF-D Parliamentary Faction’s law amendment on exempting the 3rd and 4th category subject-to-demolishion residences from the property taxation has been turned down. ARF-D Members of Parliament Ara Nranyan, Artashes Shahbazyan and Artsvik Minasyan…
ARF-D Member of Parliament Lilit Galstyan in response to her ARP (Armenia’s Republican Party) colleague Vardan Ayvazyan’s remarks about emigration being a positive development because of the foreign transfers coming in the country, said that perhaps this assumption could apply in countries such as China where the population is large and the export of labor…
On November 15, the Parliament of Armenia held an extraordinary session in order to discuss ARF-D’s proposition about raising the minimum wage. ARF-D proposed that the increase should take in account the inflation level, the minimum living budget or the market basket as well as the average wage and setting the minimum wage to 63.000…
The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation, in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, has published a policy paper entitled “Social Reforms in Armenia” in both Armenian and English, focusing on employment, healthcare, and social housing. The group of experts (economists, parliamentarians, historians) who have worked on the study provided an analysis and solution approaches to the mentioned topics. During…
YEREVAN—The Hrayr Maroukhian Foundation (HMF), a social democratic think-tank founded in 2009, is a non-profit Armenian foundation committed to the development and advancement of public policy issues that espouse the basic values of social democracy through education, training, research, and regional and international cooperation. The aims of the foundation are to contribute to and actively…
Member of the parliamentary faction of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun, economist Ara Nranyan said at a press conference Wednesday that the economic polices implemented by the Government of Armenia in recent months not only do not suppress inflation and crisis, but rather by themselves “create crisis and inflation.” “The government raises the value of money,…
The National Assembly approved on Thursday a government-backed bill increasing from five to six days the length of a regular workweek for a large part of Armenia’s population. Corresponding amendments to the country’s Labor Code were passed in the first reading despite strong objections voiced by the parliament’s opposition minority. The amendments will enable employers…
YEREVAN–A 2.6 percent growth in Armenia’s economy in 2010 reported on Wednesday by the National Statistical Service only benefited “oligarchs and the state budget,” while normal people experienced a sharp decline in wages and living standards, an economist and parliament deputy from the opposition Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashanktsutyun said Wednesday. “When we look at real life…
YEREVAN — The Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun called on members of parliament Monday to vote against a government proposed law that will radically privatize Armenia’s pension system. On June 24, 2010, the Republic of Armenia’s National Assembly decided to privatize its social security system by adopting an extreme version of a private pension model. The mandatory…
YEREVAN — The Armenian state is dangerously being mismanaged, warned a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation-Dashnaktsutyun’s parliamentary faction on Friday. Speaking to reporters in Yerevan, Artsvik Minasyan said widespread incompetence plagues nearly all sectors of Armenia’s government and industry, from the irresponsible management of natural resources, to negligent and poorly thought out legislation. The…
