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...

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...