The goal of this article is to discuss the principal dimensions of the public policies in the Republic of Moldova supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (here and after SME) and to evaluate the correspondence of such policies to the actual needs and problems experienced by businesses.
Based on statistical findings, the article presents a brief overview of the current state of the SME sector in Moldova and the major trends in its recent development, including the period of the economic crisis.
Main issues experienced by Moldovan SMEs will be identified and classified into categories, such as problems resulted from the SMEs’ limited access to resources, from certain actions of the governmental business regulating agencies, and from business environment-related factors. The article relies on the findings of the polls and interviews as its main method of identifying problems experienced by Moldovan SMEs. The polls and interviews employed in the article were conducted with an active participation of the author during the last five years by the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and within the context of international research projects bringing together research teams from the EU and NIS states.
The article identifies and discusses the principal carriers and agents of the public policies supporting SMEs in Moldova, such as business-regulating legislation, public programs implementing strategic policies, and agencies involved in SMEs support. Furthermore, the attention is given to the policies targeting specific categories of entrepreneurs.
The business-support policies suggested and executed by Moldovan government will be juxtaposed to the actual problems and needs experienced by entrepreneurs as identified by the authors during polls and interviews. This juxtaposition will allow for the evaluation of the degree to which the public policies succeed in addressing the problems and needs of SMEs and for the identification of the ways in which these policies fall short of the entrepreneurs’ expectations. Certain improvements with regard to the SMEs-supporting policies in Moldova will be offered, in particular concerning the redistribution of the tasks and responsibilities between the national and local business-regulating institutions, the improvement of the allocation of a differentiated support to specific categories of entrepreneurs, and the advancement of the dialogue between private business and government regulating agencies.
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19.09.2011.
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