“Presentation of results of the 49th. Business Association Survey Research and Social Studies (ASIES) to April 2011.
Every three months, the ASIES survey team contacts Guatemalan companies that advertise in the phone book by telephone. In this way they try to find out what the perceptions of micro, small, medium and large businesses are regarding the development of their productive activity.
This report shows the results of the 49th. Business Survey, for which 611 businesses from various branches of economic activity were consulted.
The behavior of production and employment shows that economic growth has not been strengthened.
Evolutionary analysis of the level of production, one of the main variables of analysis, determined that economic growth has not been sufficiently strengthened, which seems consistent with the prevailing doubts about the economic recovery worldwide. In April 2011, the number of companies who decreased their production is still greater than the number of companies who increased their production compared to the same month in 2010.”
Source: Social Studies and Investigation Asociation (Guatemala)
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December 2009
49% of the surveyed businessmen plan to increase production in the next 6 months, while 15% plan to reduce it.
The latest business survey conducted by research association ASIES among 878 companies gives "positive, but not sufficient signals" of economic recovery, according to survey coordinator Violeta Hernández.
September 2009
Asies latest business survey reveals the loss of 29.000 jobs between July 2008 and July 2009.
Out of the 914 companies who participated in the survey, 7% reduced their installed capacity.
"68% of the companies reduced their production, 15% increased it and for the remaining 17%, it remained unchanged" explained Violeta Hernández, Asies consultant.
April 2011
Results of the 48th Guatemalan Business Survey done by the Association for Research and Social Studies (ASIES).
Executive Summary
The perception of businessmen shows the challenges of economic recovery. The balanced opinion in production, income and employment variables indicate greater optimism.
July 2010
The latest business survey carried out by Asies reveals that expectations of a recovery in the second half of 2010 have been postponed to 2011.
In the previous survey from the Association for Investigation and Social Studies (ASIES) the perception was that the Guatemalan economy would recover in the last six months of this year.
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