Small and medium-sized businesses in the Volgograd region: main tendencies of development and state support

In the conditions of the economic crisis, the problems of the development and the support of small and medium-sized enterprises have significantly worsened and it became clear that a full-scale change in the system of government support of small entrepreneurship is needed. The goal of the article is the review and the analysis of the current economic situation of small and medium enterprises, the identification of key issues affecting the development and the suggestion of the recommendations on the improvement the existing system of the government support. The scientific and special research methods, statistical methods of data processing are used. Official statistical information about the activities of small and medium-sized businesses was formed according to the results of the Federal statistical observations that in accordance with the legislative acts are conducted every five years. The results of a continuous monitoring allowed comparing for the first time the analysis of the development of small and medium sized business in the Volgograd region between 2010 and 2015 including the dynamics of the change of the number of the main indices of small and medium sized business in modern economic conditions...