Romania ranks 5th among 21 countries/regions by CEOs optimism about the revenue growth perspectives of their companies in the next year.
Other 40% of respondents are moderately optimistic about revenue growth this year. On the medium term, Romanian CEOs’ optimism is even higher, with 54% stating that they are highly confident in their companies’ growth perspective in the next three years (more than the global average of 49%).
India’s CEOs top the list, with 62% very confident in their short-term growth prospects. Other leading countries include Mexico (50%), ASEAN countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam – 47%) and the US (46%).
Romania has more optimistic CEOs than Great Britain (39%), Germany (35%), Spain (35%), Denmark (33%), Switzerland (24%), France (23%) and Italy (20%).
However, 27% of Romanian CEOs think that the global economy will deteriorate in 2015, three times as many pessimists as last year when only 8% of Romanian respondents thought the global economy would decline. 38% of Romanian CEOs believe that the global economic situation will stay the same, while 35% show more optimism and believe it will improve.
On a global level, fewer CEOs than last year think global economic growth will improve over the next 12 months, though confidence in their ability to achieve revenue growth in their own companies remains stable, according to over 1,300 CEOs interviewed in PwC’s 18th Annual Global CEO Survey.
The results of the survey were released Tuesday at the opening of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.