- Industrial production and capacity utilization: The 2001 annual revision
In late 2001, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System published the annual revision of its index of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity and capacity utilization for the period January 1992 through October 2001 (chart 1). Measured from fourth quarter to fourth quarter, industrial ......
- Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: The 2003 Annual Revision
On November 10, 2003, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve issued revisions to its index of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity and capacity utilization for the period from January 1972 to September 2003. Overall, the changes are small, and most of them appear after ......
- Purchasing chemicals from India: Lots of opportunities
India is the fourth largest economy in the world, after the U.S., China and Japan, and the country is beginning to use its financial muscle to export products worldwide, including chemicals. According to K. Ravimurthy, a senior analyst with ARC Advisory Group, Bangalore, India, the development of the Indian chemical ......
- Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization: The 2004 Annual Revision
On December 22, 2004, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve issued revisions to its index of industrial production (IP) and the related measures of capacity and capacity utilization for the period from January 1972 to November 2004. Overall, the changes to total industrial production were small and almost ......
- Indian steel defies economy.
India's GDP growth in the 2000 fiscal year declined to 6% from 6.4% in the previous year and the Index of Industrial Production (IIP) dropped to 5% from 6.5%. Despite the economic slowdown, the Indian steel industry increased finished steel production, reduced its imports, and achieved a higher volume of ......
- Indian rubber
HEADNOTE THE INDIAN ECONOMY NEEDS SUPPORT, BUT IT HAS PROVED ITS ABILITY TO BOUNCE BACK, SAYS SAMPATH KUMAR IMAGE PHOTOGRAPH 2 If any proof is needed of India's economic potential, you need look no further than the fact that Bill Clinton is the first US president to visit India in ......
- Meeting the New Challenge to U.S. Economic Competitiveness
HEADNOTE Collaboration among government, industry, academia, and labor succeeded in the 1980s. That coalition must act again. The U.S. economy, seemingly a world-dominant Goliath in the mid- and late-1990s, now faces major structural challenges from a new cast of Davids. The nation confronts a host of new economic challengers led ......