The initial estimates of August by industrial enterprises received by means of business surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute1 showed improvement of the situation in industry. Actual changes in demand retained the previous dynamics; as a result, the achieved volumes of sales were rated...

According to business surveys of the Gaidar Institute1 carried out in May, the situation in the Russian industry changed for the better. Forecasts of changes in demand, output and employment demonstrate positive dynamics. The stocks of finished products are successfully controlled by...

According to business surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute1, in February recovery of growth failed to attain the normal extent which situation resulted in surplus of stocks of fi nished products in conditions where the dynamics of output was ahead of demand. It is to be noted that...

According to the data of business surveys of the Gaidar Institute1, in October there were no principal changes neither in the dynamics of the demand, nor in the dynamics of the output of the Russian industry. The above situation caused growth in dissatisfaction about the volumes of current sales...

Russia has been upgraded 19 places, from 111th to 92nd, out of the 189 countries covered by the recent Doing Business 2014, the report made by the World Bank and the International Finance Corporation. The performed work has shown tangible results. However, a sober attitude towards assessing the...

Various international organizations has recently published country rankings on various business environment metrics, namely Index of Economic Freedom, Corruption Perception Index, Forbes’s “Best Countries for Business”. Russia ranks low by all these organizations. The current tragic...

The initial data of the business surveys of the Gaidar Institute on the state of things in the Russian industry showed that in January the situation did not change for the worse and modest positive signals late in 2013 might consolidate in 2014. The positive dynamics of the demand permitted to...

Analysis of the system of business surveys of the Gaidar Institute permits to say negative changes in the dynamic s of demand become regular for Russian industry where output growth in such a situation differs little from zero, prices depreciate, stocks of finished products are successfully...

The results of decomposition of growth in the output index point to the fact that in 2013 growth in the gross value added (GVA) of industry was achieved by means of accumulation of extensive factors. According to the preliminary estimates, the growth rates of the aggregate factor productivity...

According to the outputs of the Gaidar Institute’s surveys1, in September a lack of principal (the more so, crisis) changes in the actual dynamics of the demand, output, prices and employment takes place in industry together with growth in optimism of forecasts. In the 4th quarter, enterprises...