{"id":573073,"date":"2026-09-02T11:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=573073"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T08:23:32","slug":"belarus-economy-ministry-again-reports-optimism-in-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/belarus-economy-ministry-again-reports-optimism-in-industry","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 Economy Ministry Again Reports Optimism in Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Investment activity at industrial enterprises remains at a high level. This was stated by the Economy Ministry\u2019s press service as it published some results of a business climate survey conducted in August.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe forecast assessment of investment activity is optimistic. Nineteen percent of managers expect it to grow over the next three months, while 71% expect it to remain at its current level,\u201d<\/em> the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, 64% of respondents reported an increase or stable production volumes, while 70% reported growing or stable demand. The share of respondents reporting a reduction in finished-goods inventories stood at 38%, up 3 percentage points from July.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe average period for which enterprises are provided with orders has remained unchanged for the third consecutive month at 2.9 months,\u201d<\/em> the ministry added.<\/p>\n<p>For the second consecutive month, the Economy Ministry did not publish data on the utilization rate of production capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, enterprise managers expect production volumes to remain unchanged, while 37% expect them to grow. Fifty-seven percent of respondents forecast demand to remain at its current level, while 32% expect it to increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investment activity at industrial enterprises remains at a high level. This was stated by the Economy Ministry\u2019s press service as it published some results of a business climate survey conducted in August. \u201cThe forecast assessment of investment activity is optimistic. Nineteen percent of managers expect it to grow over the next three months, while 71% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":517820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a97dd08a53d4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Belarus\u2019 Economy Ministry Again Reports Optimism in Industry"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}