Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Vera A. Barinova
Author-Workplace-Name: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
Author-Name: Ksenia V. Demidova
Author-Workplace-Name: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
Title: Support through Entrepreneurship: International Experience and Opportunities for its Application in Russia
Title: Поддержка занятости за счет предпринимательства: международный опыт и возможности его применения в России
Abstract: The article highlights the directions of the foreign policy of employment support in crisis periods and outside of crises, compares the instruments of SME support in different countries. During the current crisis, popular measures of state support for business have become supporting the liquidity of companies and facilitating the maximum transfer of their activities to the digital mode. Russia needs to expand the areas of concessional lending or co-financing, step up assistance to SMEs to digitalize their activities. 
The article was written on the basis of the RANEPA state assignment research programme.
Keywords: employment support, small and medium entrepreneurship, anti-crisis policy
Classification-JEL: E24, O5
Journal: Russian Economic Developments
Year: 2022
Issue: 1
Month: January
Pages: 43-50
File-URL: http://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/recdev/r2209.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:gai:recdev:r2209