Russian SME Resource Centre (RCSME)

The Russian SME Resource Centre (RCSME) is a leading SME research and analytical centre which provides information and policy advice on private sector development and SME support in Russia.

RCSME offers a wide range of services and tailor-made research for investors, financial companies, banks, public institutions, donor agencies, business support organisations, researchers:

• SME statistics in Russia, including statistics on individual entrepreneurs and medium businesses;
• monitoring and analysis of private sector development;
• research, policy advice and information on SME access to finance, including microfinance;
• surveys on the SME markets in Russia’s regions, including analysis of local economic and regulatory environment, development trends, SME support policies and practices, SME needs, lending to SMEs, etc.;
• evaluation of private sector development programs and projects;
• information support, including SME-related databases and knowledge sharing across Russia via an own information dissemination system;
• largest in Russia free Electronic Library on Small Entrepreneurship http://www.rcsme.ru/lib.asp

RCSME regional experience: North Caucasus: North Ossetia-Alania, Ingushetia, Republic of Karachaevo-Cherkessiya; Moscow, Leningrad, Nizhni Novgorod Oblast, Rostov Oblast, Voronezh Oblast, Perm Oblast, Pskov Oblast, Tver Oblast, Tomsk Oblast, Irkutsk Oblast, Sakhalin Oblast, Magadan City, Krasnoyarsky Krai, Kaluga Oblast, Tula Oblast. Surveys performed by RCSME on microfinance, monitoring SME sector development, regional information resources for SMEs covered 68 Russia’s regions in all federal districts.

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Portal - an entry point for doing business in St.-Petersburg

Author: The Danish National Agency for Enterprise and Construction in the framework of the project “Web based business information service in St. Petersburg city” for the Committee on the Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of St. Petersburg Administration. The project was implemented by COWI in co-operation with the Haandvaerksraadet (The Danish Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises), HVRI International and St. Petersburg Foundation for SME Development.

Best-Practice Guide for a Positive Business and Investment Climate

Author: Barry Kolodkin, Olga Moreva, Shawn N. Sullivan, commissioned by The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). Published: 2006

Summary of the Non-bank Microfinance Development Trends in Russia /2003-2004/

Author: Produced by the Russain SME Resource Centre jointly with the Russian Microfinance Centre. Published: 2006

Summary of the Analysis of Microfinance Development in Russia. Part II. Non-Bank Microfinance Institutions Supply Assessment

Author: Produced by Russian SME Resource Centre jointly with the Russian Microfinance Centre. Published: 2004

Analysis of the Role and Place of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Russia. Statistical reference, 2004