39% of parents consider distance learning as holidays. Nearly half of students (49%) share the same point of view. Moreover, 62% of students and 56% of their families do not consider that the online format can be considered as a full-fledged alternative to live classroom studies, which was...

At year-end 2019, high rates of the retail lending market were registered. This growth demonstrated increased accessibility of loans to households amid moderate inflation and stable financial state of households. Excessive banking sector's liquidity was an additional trigger for this growth....

The provision of assets by the banking sector in 2019 remained rather squared. Given the fact that economic subjects kept confidence in the banking sector, the lending institutions went on a resource base binge by using traditional tools—taking household and corporate funds on deposits....

In the course of four recent years the unemployment level in the Russian Federation is on the decline. However, application of alternative criteria for the estimation of underutilized labor resources demonstrate somewhat different dynamics. In 2019, we observed growth of potential workforce...

The State is implementing the policy of labor market (human resource) development in rural areas in the framework of the State Program for Comprehensive Development of Rural Areas (hereinafter – State Program)1. It is expected that the allocation of state subsidies designed to cover the costs...

Downward trend in demand curbs growth of industrial output. At the same time, plans and projections of enterprises still remain optimistic. In the context of personnel shortage businesses put out considerable efforts aimed at keeping their workers and plan to increase employment

Return on assets of the Russian banks at 2019-end has significantly increased despite a slide in bank margin and slowdown of lending growth rates. This fact was due to both credit risk mitigation and putting in operation of a new procedure for loan loss accounting. In 2019 as a whole, bank...

As seen by the period-end results of Q4 2019, the manufacturing and extractive sectors of the Russian economy once again displayed a near-zero growth, while production of electric energy, gas and water declined. Growth slowdown in the extractive sector occurred as a result of the implementation...

In 2019, Russia's trade surplus shrank significantly as result of a declining value volume of exports which, in its turn, was pushed down by sliding prices of oil and increasing imports. Meanwhile, net capital outflow that had been observed in 2018 gave way to net capital inflow, to the value of...

The regions over January-November 2019 demonstrated stunted social and economic development. Except renewal in the residential construction sector following the recession the fastest rate of development was posted in the largest Moscow agglomeration. Amid the weak wage growth seen in the vast...