SMALL BUSINESS IN THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY AND ABROAD: DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS AND FORMS OF STATE SUPPORT
The economy of most of the major economically developed countries is built on the functioning of enterprises of small and average business. Small business has a social function, providing employment to a diverse population. Special importance has the innovative feature of small business, since the implementation of innovative projects contributed to the development of the state's economy and increase economic growth. In the Russian economy, small business development is constrained by several factors: tax barriers (about 40% of respondents stated that they were forced to close their business due to unprofitability, which is associated with a high tax burden), credit problems (at 2014-2015 to 30% of respondents mentioned high interest rate on the loan), bureaucratic obstacles, poor legal protection of small businesses. In this regard may be very actual the manifestation of the state support of small business.