Bìznes Inform (Mar 2019)
The Foreign Experience of Crediting the Small-Sized Business
Abstract
The article is aimed at developing a scientific-methodical approach to researching the global experience of crediting the small-sized business through the prism of the current obstacles for Ukraine in accessing the debt financing. The main obstacles constraining the small-sized business entities from taking credits are summarized in the publication. A research on the foreign experience of credit support of the small-sized business development is carried out according to the evaluation criteria from positions of definition of problem points of the small-sized business crediting in Ukraine. The share of short-term credits in the structure of the credit portfolio of the EU Member States is analyzed. The relevance of various types of credit services in the activities of the small-sized business entities of the EU-28 countries is defined. A comparison of indices of the credit reception both in Ukraine and abroad in 2018 is carried out. Scientific novelty of the article is the scientific-methodical approach to analyzing the foreign experience of crediting the small-sized business from positions of problem points definition, which allowed to define features of credit provision in foreign countries (priority of certain types of credit services; urgency and tendencies of changes in the cost of loans; problematic aspects of receiving debt financing on pledge, etc.).
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