Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name:Barinova Vera
Author-Name-First: Vera 
Author-Name-Last:Barinova 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Author-Name:Zemtsov Tsepan
Author-Name-First: Tsepan 
Author-Name-Last:Zemtsov 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Author-Name:Tsareva Yulia
Author-Name-First: Yulia 
Author-Name-Last:Tsareva 
Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy 
Title: Small and medium-sized enterprises in 2016–2017
Abstract: Over the period 2016–2017, a number of specialized normative legal acts were introduced with the aim of developing the small and medium-sized business sector (SMB), including the SMB Development Strategy until 2030;[1] the SMB Corporation was set up;[2] and the creation of a basic support infrastructure was completed in many regions. The Single Register of SMB Subjects was introduced in order to follow the monthly movement of their basic indices. 
In 2017, 77.9 percent of all organizations and individual entrepreneurs (IEs) belonged to the category of SMB subjects, while at year-end 2016, the share of SMB subjects in the national average employment rate (calculated on the basis of their average staffing number index) amounted to 37.9 percent, and in the total turnover of enterprises and organizations – to 37.1 percent. The input of SMBs, IEs including, in GDP over the period from 2011 through 2016 jumped by 0.5 percentage points, and now amounts to approximately 20 percent. 

Classification-JEL: C53; E37; L21; L52
Keywords:  Russian economy, small businesses, medium-sized enterprises
Creation-Date: 2018
Revision-Date:2018
Length: 15 pages
File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/ppaper-2018-312.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Function: Revised version, 2018
Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:ppaper-2018-312