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Private small manufacturers in St Petersburg
01.09.1994
Private sector manufacturers in St Petersburg, Russia, operate in highly unstable macro-economic conditions, with an unsatisfactory banking system, and often have a close relationship with public sector enterprise. The following article, extracted from a longer report, describes the manufacturers and their firms, identifies constraints to their growth and offers some suggestions about how private sector manufacturing might be supported. The situation for entrepreneurs in St Petersburg is also compared with those in Hungary, Poland and the former Czechoslovakia, where research was also carried out.