45%
of executives at industrial companies noted in February that uncertainty in Russia’s economic situation is preventing the development of their businesses.
The number of executives connecting the difficulty of doing business with economic uncertainty has been growing steady recently. At the end of last year the share of respondents supporting this view was 39%, and in the first half of 2014, it was no more than a third.
However, complaints about uncertainty in the economy occur much more rarely than at the height of the previous crisis; at the beginning of 2009, about 60% of industrial company representatives held this view.
These data are presented in new information and analytical materials produced by the Centre for Business Tendency Studies at the HSE Institute for Statistical Studies and Economics of Knowledge (ISSEK). The materials cover the primary factors that limited the activity of enterprises and organizations in basic industries in 2014.
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