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...

In the first months of 2019, Russian industry preserved output growth amid the recovery of the sales upward dynamics and around zero balance estimates of finished goods inventory. Nearly half of enterprises consider insufficient demand a major setback for significant output growth. Nevertheless,...

Russian Abstract: Несмотря на почти двукратное падение цен на нефть, торговое сальдо в I кв. сократилось не так сильно, как это случилось, например, в начале 2009 г. Масштабы...

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...

There are hopes for industrial recovery from stagnation in Russia, according to analysis of the results of a survey that was carried out by the Gaidar Institute in October 2016. A positive shift in real sales dynamics coupled with slowly upgraded forecasts for the same is supplemented by a...

According to business surveys conducted by Gaidar Institute, domestic industry in a more definite way turns into "smooth water" of Russian economic crisis, which smooth surface was not ruffled in 2016 even by declarations about its prompt termination. Ambiguous demand dynamic together with...

Final estimate given by the Index of Adaptability for Q3 2016 has confirmed the increased level of Russian industry adaptability to the crisis of 2014–2016. The indicator has conclusively registered its all-time maximum at 74% for the entire period of monitoring 1994–2016 (Fig. 1). Review...

Import substitution in the Russian industry shows obvious signs of a slowdown. Both comparative results of actually implemented import substitution quarter-on-quarter and plans of enterprises for the last quarter of the current year attest to this. At the same time, import substitution of...

First September data obtained from the Gaidar Institute business surveys has demonstrated high adjustment of Russian industry to 2015 recession pattern. Sluggish negative demand dynamic suits the majority of enterprises and allows them to steadily control finished products' stocks. Output growth...