MINING OF METAL ORES INDUSTRY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH NEXUS IN ARMENIA: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

The mining industry is pivotal in ensuring Armenia's foreign exchange earnings. Therefore, we investigate the role of real exports of companies representing the mining of metal ores industry using quarterly data (2012q1 2023q2) in explaining statistically significant changes in the real GDP in the short run based on the least squares estimation technique. We conclude that significant positive changes in the real GDP are not associated with the increase in the industry's real exports since the growth of the mining of metal ores industry in Armenia mainly reflects the developments in the global commodity market. Hence, we find no evidence of the “multiplier effect.” Based on the findings, we substantiate the main challenges the industry could face and highlight the prospects ahead while meeting the objectives that the Mining Sector Development Strategy (until 2035) defined to ensure the industry's growth and attract new investors

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MARUTYAN, Harutyun: Hay ink’nut’yan patkeragrut’yun [Iconography of Armenian Identity]. Volume I: Ts’eghaspanut’yan hishoghut’yun ev Gharabaghyan sharzhum [The Memory of Genocide and the Karabakh Movement]. Yerevan: Gitutyun, 2009, 427 pp., 254 ill. – (Hishoghut’yan azgagrut’yun 2 [Anthropology of Memory 2]) MARUTYAN, Harutyun: Iconography of Armenian Identity. Volume I: The Memory of Genocide and the Karabakh Movement. Yerevan: Gitutyun Publishing House of the National Academy of Sciences, Republic of Armenia. 2009, XVI, 415 pp., 254 ill. – (Anthropology of Memory 2) P. AVETISYAN–B. GASPARYAN– A. KALANTARYAN– A. SAHAKYAN (eds): Ginin hayots’ avandakan ashkharhum – Wine in Traditional Armenian Culture. 2005, Yerevan: Center for Agribusiness and Rural Development; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA, 306 pp., ill. Levon ABRAHAMIAN–Aghasi TADEVOSYAN–Tamara HAKOBYAN (eds.): Avandakan yev ardiakan hayots’ mshakuyt’um [Tradition and Modernity in Armenian Culture] – Collection of the Conference materials held on November 26−28, 2009 in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, National Academy of Sciences of Armenia. Yerevan: Gitutyun, 2010. (Hay Zhoghovrdakan Mshakuyt’ XV) Hranush KHARATYAN (ed.) Patmut’yunner aghk’atut’yan masin [Stories on Poverty]. Yerevan: Lusakn, 2001, 432 pp. KHARATYAN, Hranush–MARUTYAN, Harutyun (eds) Patmut’yunner aghk’atut’yan masin [Stories on Poverty]. Book 2. Yerevan: The “Hazarashen” Armenian Center for Ethnological Studies NGO, 2007, 544 pp. Левон АБРАМЯН. Беседы у дерева. М.: Языки славянских культур, (Язык. Семиотика. Культура. Малая серия). 2005, 272 c. ABRAHAMIAN, Levon: Armenian Identity in a Changing World. (Armenian Studies Series, Number 8) Costa Mesa, Cal.: Mazda Publishers, Inc., 2006, 406 pp. Ethnographic Maps in the National Atlas of Armenia SOUL FOOD Monographs on two Armenian cemeteries Dr. ISSEKUTZ, Sarolta (ed.) Örmény halottkultusz és temetkezés. Erzsébetváros és örmény katolikus temetője. [Armenian Cult of the Dead and Burial. Erzsébetváros and its Armenian Catholic Cemetery] (Transylvanian Armenian Museum Vol. 13.) Budapest: Transylvanian Armenian Cultural Roots Association, 2009, 145 pp., ill. BALÁZS-BÉCSI, Attila: A szamosújvári magyar−örmény katolikus temető monográfi ája. [Monograph of the Hungarian−Armenian Catholic Cemetery of Szamosújvár]. Budapest: Armenian Minority Self-government of Budapest’s 11th district, 2002, 120 pp. ill. Judit PÁL: Armeni în Transilvania. Contribuţii la procesul de urbanizare şi dezvoltare economică a provinciei / Armenians in Transylvania. Their Contribution to the Urbanization and the Economic Development of the Province. Translated by Bogdan Aldea, Cluj-Napoca: Romanian Cultural Institute, Center for Transylvanian Studies, 2005. 174 pp. 68 ill. Die Aufzeichnungen des Dominikaners Martin Grüneweg (1562 – ca. 1618) über seine Familie in Danzig, seine Handelsreisen in Osteuropa und sein Klosterleben in Polen. (Ed. Almut Bues) vol. 1−4. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2008. S. 1888 ŐZE, Sándor–KOVÁCS, Bálint (eds) Örmény diaszpóra a Kárpát-medencében II. [Armenian Diaspora in the Carpathian Basin]. (Művelődéstörténeti Műhely – Felekezet és identitás 2.) Piliscsaba: Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem 2007, 283 pp

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