The slow slowdown in demand that commenced in late 2019 forced the industrial sector to hold back output growth in early 2020. Furthermore, in January, the expectations (plans) and forecasts of enterprises maintained a stable level of optimism. And the shortage of personnel forced businessmen to...

Prolonged period of industrial business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institute and representative range of indicators permit to resolve the first task – analyze the situation in the sector in 2018 – determine the place for the year 2018 in all the 27 years since the IET launched and...

In May, according to industrial enterprises estimates, output, and employment held steady. Moreover, industry indicated its readiness to cut prices thus showing the termination of the VAT new rate pass-through into producers' prices. Business forecasts retain high level of optimism maintained by...

The Russian industry has enough production capacity, according to data for 2018– 2019. More than 90% of producers have enough – or, in some cases, even more than enough – production capacity to meet the demand they expect. Not more than 10% of industrial enterprises are now faced with a...

Downward trend in demand curbs growth of industrial output. At the same time, plans and projections of enterprises still remain optimistic. In the context of personnel shortage businesses put out considerable efforts aimed at keeping their workers and plan to increase employment

The second half of 2017 was a tough period for Russian enterprises; in particular, in the middle of the year industrial enterprises saw the demand for their products expand at slower pace. In November, however, a representative indicator set of Gaidar Institute's business survey statistics...

In February, according to the data obtained by business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institute, Russian industry demonstrated lack of positive changes in demand and output, deterioration of assessments of existing volumes of demand and stocks amid growing pessimism regarding plans and...

According to business surveys conducted by the Gaidar Institute, amid flat and relatively stable demand, whose forecasts for change are also stable, attempts of the industry to increase production volumes lead to the growth of surplus of stocks of finished products, negative adjustment of output...

The business opinion surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute in March 2013 pointed to a worsening situation for Russian industrial enterprises. As a result, industrial enterprises began to lose confidence in the correctness of their production and marketing policies, and so were trying to...