{"id":153268,"date":"2012-01-12T18:19:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T14:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=153268"},"modified":"2012-01-12T18:20:24","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T14:20:24","slug":"that-which-is-given-for-free-in-batumi-is-sold-for-20-million-in-armenian-town-sociologist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/12\/that-which-is-given-for-free-in-batumi-is-sold-for-20-million-in-armenian-town-sociologist.html","title":{"rendered":"That Which is Given for Free in Batumi is Sold for $20 Million in Armenian Town: Sociologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even parking attendants paid 100 drams per car are required to provide a receipt, which is ridiculous, said sociologist Aharon Adibekyan, speaking to journalists in Yerevan today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Around the world, small business provides 85% of the workforce and governments are fighting against unemployment with this. Our research findings in 2010 uncovered that 14% of families emigrated from Armenia due to business closure or losing employment,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>On the matter of unfavorable conditions for investment, Adibekyan said: &#8220;There was program to develop tourism on the site of the unbuilt Yeghvard reservoir. There was already an agreement; it only remained to alienate the land as non-industrial land. The area was assessed at $40 million. To the same project developer the mayor of [the Georgian seaside resort city of] Batumi gives 2 hectares of land free of charge, in any area in Batumi on the condition that he build a site for tourism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In Ghrer, the area is valued at $40 million and sold for $20 million, while in a seaside city like Batumi the land is provided free of charge. This is why Georgia is in 27th place it terms of being favorable [for investment], while Armenia is in 49th place.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the matter of unfavorable conditions for investment, Adibekyan said: &#8220;There was program to develop tourism on the site of the unbuilt Yeghvard reservoir.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}