According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

According to the head of the Armenian Central Bank ’ s ( CBA ) department for financial system policies and analyses ( Vahe Vardanyan ) Armenian banks have no large asset concentrations in foreign markets, particularly in capital markets.

According to Stephen Frederic Dale, the name Babur is derived from the Persian word babr, meaning " tiger ", a word that repeatedly appears in Firdawsī's Shāhnāma and had also been borrowed by the Turkic languages of Central Asia.

According to the majority of sources ( see section Current views on Central Europe for some ) the region includes:

According to it, Central Asia includes Mongolia, Tibet, northeast Iran ( Golestan, North Khorasan and Razavi provinces ), Afghanistan, Northern Areas, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( also called N. W. F. P.

According to Party rules, the Central Committee directed all Party and government activities between each Party Congress.

According to party rules, the Central Committee was to convene at least twice a year to discuss political matters ( but not matters relating to military policy ).

According to Robert Vincent Daniels the Central Committee was rather an assembly of representatives than an assembly of individuals.

According to John Koch, Cunliffe, Karl, Wodtko and other scholars, Celtic culture may have developed first in far Southern Portugal and Southwestern Spain, approximately 500 years prior to anything recorded in Central Europe.

According to Agassiz the provinces that the different races were created in included Western American Temperate ( the indigenous peoples west of the Rockies ); Eastern American Temperate ( east of the Rockies ); Tropical Asiatic ( south of the Himalayas ); Temperate Asiatic ( east of the Urals and north of the Himalayas ); South American Temperate ( South America ); New Holland ( Australia ); Arctic ( Alaska and Arctic Canada ); Cape of Good Hope ( South Africa ); and American Tropical ( Central America and the West Indies ).

According to the latter usage, in 1978 the CPC Central Committee denounced as " ultra-left " the line of Mao Zedong from 1956 until his death in 1976.

According to the Toba catastrophe theory, it had global consequences, killing most humans then alive and creating a population bottleneck in Central Eastern Africa and India that affected the genetic inheritance of all humans today.

According to the WWF, the territory of Moldova can be subdivided into three ecoregions: the Central European mixed forests, the East European forest steppe ( the most territory of the country ), and Pontic steppe ( in the south and southeast ).

According to the official estimates of the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands Antilles, the five islands had a combined population of 199, 929 as at 1 January 2009.

According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 75. 7 % of Israel's population is Jewish.

According to the Central Statistical Office of Poland, In 2010 the Polish economic growth rate was 3. 9 %, which was one of the best results in Europe.

According to a recent report by the European Commission, Slovakia ( along with some other Central and Eastern European economies ) is low down on the list of EU states in the area of innovation ( Slovakia ranks 22nd ).

According to the CIA and the Central Bank of Somalia, despite experiencing civil unrest, Somalia has maintained a healthy informal economy, based mainly on livestock, remittance / money transfer companies and telecommunications.

According to the Central Bank of Somalia, about 80 % of the population are nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists, who keep goats, sheep, camels and cattle.

According to the Central Bank of Somalia, imports of goods total about $ 460 million per year, and have recovered and even surpassed aggregate imports prior to the start of the civil war in 1991.

According to the Central Bank of Somalia, as the nation embarks on the path of reconstruction, the economy is expected to not only match its pre-civil war levels, but also to accelerate in growth and development due to the Somalia's untapped natural resources.

According to its charter, the position of head of state of the Central Tibetan Administration belongs ex officio to the current Dalai Lama, a religious hierarch.

According to a separate U. S. Central Intelligence Agency study, “ the effect of an FAE explosion within confined spaces is immense.

According to Central Bank of Venezuela, the government received from 1998 to 2008 around 325 billion USD through oil production and export, and according to the International Energy Agency, to June 2010 has production of 2. 2 million of barrels per day, 800, 000 of which go to the United States of America.

According to a World Bank official, 30 percent of Armenia's economy in 2009 came from the construction sector.

According to a World Bank official, a country that has around 12 percent rate of growth or even lower, at the range of 7 to 8 percent, can afford a level of public debt of up to 50 percent.

According to its Memorandum & Articles of Association, its objectives are :- “ To act as Nominee or agent or attorney either solely or jointly with others, for any person or persons, partnership, company, corporation, government, state, organisation, sovereign, province, authority, or public body, or any group or association of them ....” Bank of England Nominees Limited was granted an exemption by Edmund Dell, Secretary of State for Trade, from the disclosure requirements under Section 27 ( 9 ) of the Companies Act 1976, because, “ it was considered undesirable that the disclosure requirements should apply to certain categories of shareholders .” The Bank of England is also protected by its Royal Charter status, and the Official Secrets Act.

According to the Bank for International Settlements, the total outstanding notional amount is US $ 708 trillion ( as of June 2011 ).

According to the World Bank Country Classification, Egypt has been promoted from the low income category to lower middle income category.

According to World Bank estimates, Eritrea lost US $ 225 million worth of livestock and 55, 000 homes during the war.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, " the Federal Reserve has the authority and financial resources to act as ' lender of last resort ' by extending credit to depository institutions or to other entities in unusual circumstances involving a national or regional emergency, where failure to obtain credit would have a severe adverse impact on the economy.

According to a World Bank report in 2006, " In Haiti, the process of business regulations is complex and customs procedures are lengthy.

According to World Bank statistics, the services sector is one of the few sectors of Haiti's economy that sustained steady, if modest, growth throughout the 1990s.

According to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the CIA World Factbook, in 2011 Italy was the eighth-largest economy in the world, the fourth-largest in Europe and the third-largest in the Eurozone in terms of nominal GDP, and the tenth-largest economy in the world and fifth-largest in Europe in terms of purchasing power parity ( PPP ) GDP.

According to World Bank experts, Kyrgyzstan has an adequate supply of high-quality water for future use, provided the resource is prudently managed.

Latvia is ranked the 21st in the world by the Ease of Doing Business Index prepared by the World Bank Group, According to the Human Development Report 2011, Latvia belongs to the group of very high human development countries.

According to the World Bank, Moldova's weighted average tariff rate in 2001 ( the most recent year for which World Bank data are available ) was 2. 8 percent.

According to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund estimates, real GDP growth reduced from 8 % to 2. 7 % in 2009, and exports shrunk 26 % from $ 2. 5Bn to $ 1. 9Bn after a promisingly steady increase up until 2008.

According to the World Bank Nicaragua's GDP was around $ 4. 9 US billion dollars.

According to the National Bank of Poland ( NBP ) the level of FDI inflow into Poland in 2006 amounted to 13. 9 billion Euro.

According to Forbes magazine Armenia had the second worst economy in the world in 2011.

According to official figures, Armenia ’ s economy grew by 13. 8 percent in 2007.

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

According to the state-owned Armenpress news agency, the average monthly wage in Armenia for the first half of 2007 was 70, 700 drams ( about $ 210 USD ).

According to economist Eduard Aghajanov, Armenia could have repaid them with low-interest loans from other, presumably Western sources, or with some of its hard currency reserves which then totaled about $ 450 million.

According to Prof. Thomas Ambrosio, " Armenia's successful irredentist project in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan " and " From 1992 to the cease-fire in 1994, Armenia encountered a highly permissive or tolerant international environment that allowed its annexation of some 15 percent of Azerbaijani territory ".

According to this document, the Byzantine emperor's ancestors were not mere peasants as everyone believed but descendants of the Arsacid Dynasty of Armenia.

According to the 2011 CIA World Factbook, countries with more than 110 males per 100 females at birth also include Albania and former Soviet republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan.

According to most classic authors, a district which was bounded on the southwest by Pontus, on the west by the Black Sea as far as the river Corax ( probably the present day Bzyb River, Abkhazia, Georgia ), on the north by the chain of the Greater Caucasus, which lay between it and Asiatic Sarmatia, on the east by Iberia and Montes Moschici ( now the Lesser Caucasus ), and on the south by Armenia.

According to John Guillim, in his Display of Heraldrie, the word " ermine " is likely derived from Armenia, the nation where it was thought the species originated, though other authors have linked it to the Norman French from the Teutonic harmin ( Anglo-Saxon hearma ).

According to this treaty, Armenia was partitioned between the Romans and the Persians.

According to this text, the spear which pierced Jesus was to have been brought to Armenia by the apostle Thaddeus.

According to tradition, it was the apostles Saint Thaddeus and Saint Bartholomew, who brought Christianity to Armenia in the 1st century.

According to a legendary tradition reported by Khorenatsi, Arran was a descendant of Sisak, the ancestor of the Siunids of Armenia ’ s province of Syunik, and thus a great-grandson of the ancestral eponym of the Armenians, the Forefather Hayk.

According to tradition, the Amaras Monastery housed the first Armenian school in the historical Armenia, which was opened early in the 5th century by the inventor of the Armenian alphabet St. Mesrob Mashtots.

According to Armenian historian Movses Khorenatsi writing in c. 482 AD, Tigranes captured Jerusalem and deported Hyrcanus to Armenia, however most scholars deem this account to be incorrect.

According to the Armenian historian Faustus of Byzantium ( 5th century ), when the Sassanid Persians invaded Armenia, Sassanid King Shapur II ( 310-380 ) removed 2, 000 Armenian and 16, 000 Jewish families in 360-370.

According to contemporary Arabic and Persian accounts, one of his generals, Bilarghu, a devout Muslim, had indicated his intention to erect a mosque in the city of Sis, still part of the Christian Kingdom of Armenia, possibly as part of a wider plan to place the province under his own control.

According to Soviet sources, relations with Georgia deteriorated over alleged violations of the peace treaty, re-arrests of Georgian Bolsheviks, obstructiveness to the passage of convoys passing through to Armenia, and a strong suspicion that Georgia was aiding armed rebels in the North Caucasus.

According to the medieval Georgian chronicles, the town of Gori was founded by King David IV ( r. 1089-1125 ) who settled refugees from Armenia there.

According to another hypothesis put forth by David M. Lang, the ancient name of Artsakh possibly derives from the name of King Artaxias I of Armenia ( 190-159 BC ), founder of the Artaxiad Dynasty and the kingdom of Greater Armenia.