SMEs and Entrepreneurship

The WPSMEE provides the analytical work and information, including evaluation of policies and best practices, and recommendations, needed by member governments, accession and enhanced engagement countries - and interested non-members - to develop policies that foster entrepreneurship, help their SMEs to innovate and meet the challenge of globalisation, facilitate sustainable growth, competitiveness, skilled jobs creation and employment.

 

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Credit crunch squeezing entrepreneurs and small businesses more than big firms

19-Apr-2012

Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs: An OECD Scoreboard finds that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) requesting loans between 2007 and 2010 faced higher interest rates than for large companies. Loan conditions for SMEs included shortened maturities and increased demands for collateral.

A Joint OECD / G20 GPFI Special Event on SME Finance

from 19-Apr-2012 to 20-Apr-2012

On the occasion of the 41st Session of the Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE), the OECD and the G20 are organising a special event on SME finance, which will bring together leading experts in the field to discuss various dimensions of the issue. OECD Deputy Secretary-General Yves Leterme will present the 2012 first edition of Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs: An OECD Scoreboard.

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