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Government support of small and medium-size enterprises involves state policies to create supportive and enabling environment and facilitate access to resources, capital, markets, and know-how to small and medium-size enterprises.
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The transition of Russia from state to market economy, which began in 1991, was rough and painful. Although state policies encouraged business development, the population was not ready to take risks in an unpredictable and volatile economic environment. Russian government had to take the leading role again to facilitate the enabling environment for small and medium-size enterprises (SME), to organize state-funded institutions to select and train promising entrepreneurs, to help them obtain...
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Kvitko, S., Nezhina, T. (2017). Government Support of Small Business in Russia. In: Farazmand, A. (eds) Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31816-5_3106-1
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