Despite the driving role of economic growth, SMEs in Vietnam have dealt with many critical constraints relating to insufficiency of internal financing sources and inaccessibility of external funds arising from the crisis period. Based on the unique dataset of Vietnam's SMEs covering the period...

This paper was prepared using data of monthly business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institutefor Economic Policy (IEP) among managers of industrial enterprises since September 1992. The surveys are based on the European harmonized methodology and encompass the entire territory of the Russian...

This paper was prepared using data of monthly business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (IEP) among managers of industrial enterprises since September 1992. The surveys are based on the European harmonized methodology and encompass the entire territory of the Russian...

This paper was prepared using data of monthly business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy (IEP) among managers of industrial enterprises. The surveys are based on the European harmonized methodology and encompass the entire territory of the Russian Federation. The size...

Agglomerative effects in the Russian manufacturing industry are significant and higher on average than in West European countries. Also, there is a marked “agglomeration shadow effect”, that is, firms' productivity tends to grow in the vicinity of large cities and to decline with distance...

Gaidar Institute's business surveys show that the Russian industrial sector started recovering in early 2017 from the protracted crisis of 2015–2016. Some indicators increased, including actual and predicted changes in demand, stock (finished products), investment plans

Business surveys of industrial enterprises have been conducted by the Gaidar Institute using a European harmonized method in monthly cycles since September 1992, covering the entire territory of the Russian Federation. The panel size is around 1,000 enterprises employing over 13% of industrial...

Industrial development case studies show that Russian regions have indeed failed, except in extremely rare cases, to strengthen their competitive power on account of well-developed economic policies. None of the regions under review was geared up for the crisis of 2014, each facing either...

The final evaluation of the Russian Industry Adaptability Index for Q1 2017 has confirmed the conclusion that enterprises have been exhibiting a persistently high degree of adaptation to the economic environment. The Index remains at a record high of 75% (in 1994–2017)

Most of Russia's industrial sectors saw output in terms of volume stabilize at a low level in H1 2016. Output began to grow slowly at year's end. The summary index of the manufacturing sector was driven by positive dynamics during the last few months of the year. Given that Russia's economy is...