The US State Department has assessed Armenia as meeting the minimum fiscal transparency requirements for FY 2014
In its Fiscal Transparency Report, the Department lists Armenia among 90 governments that met the minimum fiscal transparency requirements for the last year. Among them are Georgia, Kygyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are among 50 governments that failed to meet the minimum requirements.
In 2015 the United States will cut its financial assistance to Armenia. The country will receive $24.7mln ($20.7mln for economy, $1.7mln for control over drugs-trafficking, $600,000 for international military education and $1.7mln as external military assistance). In 2013 Armenia received $35.7mln. The data for 2014 are not available.
The US assistance to Azerbaijan this year will also be $24.7mln, while Georgia will get $53.5mln.
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n 2015 Armenia's GDP is expected to grow by 4.1%. The Government expects 4% (+1.5%) inflation, 1.191tln AMD revenues, 1.305tln AMD expenses and 114bln AMD deficit.