EXAMINING CRISIS AND POST-CRISIS WORLD STATE TENDENCIES TO SUPPORT AND STIMULATE SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED BUSINESSES

Abstract

The article examines the global trends of
state incentives, support, and resource providing for the
subjects of small and medium-sized businesses in crisis
and post-crisis period. The author considered small and
medium-sized businesses in the European Union by the
example of the Federal Republic of Germany and the
subjects of small and medium-sized businesses of the
United States of America and pointed out their characteristic
features, types of state support and the peculiarities
of development. The article also considers the
overseas qualitative and quantitative criterial signs to
classify enterprises in groups of small or medium-sized
business.