DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUMBUSINESS IN RUSSIA AND ASIA
The aim of the present study was to compare the state of small and medium-sized businesses (hereinafter SMEs) in the Russian Federation, Japan and China from the standpoint of criteria for classifying organizations as SMEs, statistics including the number and share of SMEs in the country's GDP, the share of SMEs employed, the history of SMEs and institutions, tax regimes and the tax burden, the system of state support and development of SMEs, subsidies, features ofconcessional lending and administrative benefits. In the article are presented the factors that, in the opinion ofthe authors, can be the reason for the uneven development of SMEs in the countries under consideration.