Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2016
An OECD Scoreboard
This report monitors SME and entrepreneur access to finance in 37 countries. It includes indicators of debt, equity, asset-based finance and framework conditions for SME and entrepreneurship finance, complemented by an overview of recent developments in public and private initiatives to support SME finance. Taken together, these indicators form a comprehensive framework for policy makers and other stakeholders to evaluate the financing needs of SMEs.
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Slovak Republic
SMEs dominate the Slovak economy, covering 99.6% of the enterprise population in 2014. There has been a constant growth in the number of SMEs over recent years, with a 3% year-on-year increase in 2014. The vast majority of SMEs (87.6%) were micro-enterprises, employing up to 9 employees. Moreover, self-entrepreneurs are an important component of the enterprise population in the Slovak Republic and constitute a significant part of firms with employees. In 2014, there were altogether 37 773 self-entrepreneurs with at least one employee, all of them counted as part of the SME population.
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