December data on Russian industry encourages cautious confidence. Upward trend of the actual demand goes with rather hopeful projections of its change, growth of stocks of finished products needed for the onset of economic growth and securing output growth rates to be around zero

The movement pattern of the Industry Adaptability Index over different periods demonstrates that in the Russian economy, biggest enterprises can better adapt to external conditions. Small and medium-sized ones adapt less successfully. This observation was also confirmed by data for...

The IET Industrial Confidence Indicator, an indicator calculated by the Gaidar Institute, hit a 6-month low in Q3 2018, refl ecting distribution-related problems facing the Russian industry and its attempts to arrest them amid protracting stagnation and rouble devaluation

Negative demand dynamics registered in early 2019 has not so far told on the output, estimates of finished products stocks and industrial enterprises forecasts. The industrial sector preserves optimism of expectations regarding demand, output and employment. However, the investment plans began...

2018 was a tough year for the Russian industry, according to surveys. On the one hand, there were no visible crisis-related changes, but on the other hand, positive trends of 2017 slowed in 2018, affecting industrial enterprises' assessments of the situation in the industry. The pace of recovery...

In the course of monthly surveys which have been carried out by the Institute for Economic Policy since 1992, Russian industrial enterprises are asked to identify factors which curb output growth. Insufficient domestic demand has been a major problem for the industry since the period of the...

2017 has been marked as a year of slow recovery from the crisis of 2015–2016 in the Russian industry. The years of crisis were distinguished by three characteristics. First, there was no plunge in demand for industrial products and in output. Second, a moderate decline in these indicators was...

The issue of labor productivity has constantly been debated among analysts and government officials. The common understanding here is that labor productivity is low and needs to be ramped up. According to our business survey, the level of satisfaction with labor productivity reached its peak in...

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 2019 – determine the place for the year 2019 in all the 28 years' history of our monitoring the...