India’s growth performance has improved significantly over the past 20 years, but has been uneven across industries and states. While some service industries, notably in the information and communications technology sector, have become highly competitive in world markets – yielding...

An in-depth analysis of the December data from the surveys of the Gaidar Institute1 showed that the end of 2012 was unfavorable to the industry. With continued weakening of demand in industrial products enterprises had to review evaluations of it, switch over to explicit reduction of output and...

According to the data of surveys carried out by the Gaidar Institute10, the situation of enterprises changed sooner for the worse, rather than improved. The demand kept falling and its forecasts suggested no optimism. In such conditions, even the existing stagnation of production results in the...

The data of the Gaidar Institute's surveys of industrial enterprises received in February presented a controversial pattern of the state of things in the industry: explicit growth in sales and output along with high redundancy of stocks of fi nished goods and a definite drop in optimism of...