GTI: Armenian businessmen become more optimisticFebruary 11, 2011 - 14:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian businessmen have shown an increase in the level of their optimism for the year 2011, showing a significant positive swing equal to +48% against the last year’s +32%, according to the 2011 Grant Thornton International Business Report (IBR). Confidence levels over economic performance are higher in Latin America than any other part of the world. 2011 is the first year Latin America has led the world on optimism with a balance of +75% of privately held business owners being optimistic about their region’s economic performance. Elsewhere, optimism in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan) is at +50%, whilst in North America it is just +26%, with Europe the least optimistic region at +22%. Businesses in Germany are the most optimistic in the Eurozone at +75% – an optimism which has surged over the past year (2010: +38%), the press service of Grant Thornton Amyot reported. Top stories Yerevan has dismissed Turkey’s demand to shut down the Armenian nuclear power plant as “inappropriate”. Armenia will loan 2.9 billion drams to Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh), according to a draft government decision. The Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Azerbaijan has “strongly condemned” Armenia’s decision. Kerobyan has said that for the first time in the history of Armenia, the volume of foreign direct investments amounted to about $1 billion. Partner news | Ucom Celebrates Telecommunication Day May 17 commemorates the founding of the International Telecommunication Union on May 17, 1865. Armenian, Azerbaijani heads of parliament meet in Switzerland President of the Armenian parliament Alen Simonyan met with the Speaker of the Azerbaijani Milli Majlis Sahiba Gafarova. Border residents overnight on highway to protest Armenia’s Residents of Kirants continue to express outrage over the government’s decision to cede land to Azerbaijan. Get Started: An educational platform for young startuppers The Get Started program which operates in two phases is an important platform for young startuppers. |