BY 2008 DRAFT STATE BUDGET, EXPENDITURES ON SCIENCE TO MAKE ABOUT 6.8 BILLION DRAMS

Noyan Tapan
Oct 31, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, NOYAN TAPAN. By the 2008 draft state budget,
expenditures on the sphere of science will make about 6.8 bln
drams. The growth of expenditures as compared with the specified budget
of 2007 will make 969 mln drams or 16.51%. Current expenditures of
2008 will grow by 1.1 bln drams.

In 2008, it is envisaged to allocate: about 3.9 bln drams to
organizations receiving basic financing against 3.6 bln drams in 2007;
943.3 mln drams for state target-programmed financing against 833
mln drams; about 1.5 bln drams for contractual (thematic) financing
against 1.34 bln drams (this growth is conditioned by an increase
in the average salary of scientific workers by about 50%). Based on
this, in 2008 the average salary of scientific workers will make 50
thousand drams against 38 thousand drams in 2007. It is envisaged to
give additional payments for scientific degrees of scientists under a
separate program of 549.9 mln drams. The amount of additional payments
will double as compared with 2007: it will make 20 thousand drams for
doctors of science and 10 thousand drams for candidates of science
– against 10 thousand drams and 5 thousand drams (about 15 USD)
respectively in 2007.