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1. SME Policy in Europe.

Author

De, Dennis

Subjects
SMALL business, ECONOMIC policy, EMPLOYMENT, ECONOMIC development, COMMUNITY development, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, GLOBALIZATION, RESEARCH & development, RED tape
Abstract

This paper explores what small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) policy is about, how it is pursued in Europe, and the differences between the European countries. According to the author, the overall objectives of SME policy are to create employment, foster economic growth, improve competitiveness, and regional/structural development. The SME-related policy pursued in most European countries involves a collection of various objectives and fields of economic policy rather than a conceptual framework. The author discusses the various approaches of SME policy that take place in the following European countries: Germany, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Denmark, France, and Belgium. The author also discusses the variation of instruments used in the following fields of SME policy: start-ups, finance, exports and internationalization, information, research and development, labor, and red tape.

Published
2000

2. Building the New Europe: western and eastern roads to social partnership.

Author

Iankova, Elena and Turner, Lowell

Subjects
SOCIOECONOMICS, ECONOMIC policy, BUDGET laws, ECONOMIC development
Abstract

This article focuses on the struggle for a social Europe by examining social partnership developments in two western countries, Germany and Britain, and two eastern countries, Bulgaria and Poland. The resurgence of social partnership in the west, even in the weakest case (Britain), is paradoxically driven in part by neoliberal EU economic policies. In the east, post-communist tripartism helped preserve social peace with the coming of markets, while both international lending agencies and subsequent EU accession processes pushed domestic actors towards social dialogue. The coming or deepening of markets has therefore surprisingly promoted or reinforced relations of social partnership throughout Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2004
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