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SME Policy Index: Eastern Partner Countries 2024

Building Resilience in Challenging Times

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The SME Policy Index: Eastern Partner Countries 2024 – Building resilience in challenging times is a unique benchmarking tool to assess and monitor progress in the design and implementation of SME policies against EU and international best practice. It embraces the priorities laid out in the European Union’s SME Strategy for a sustainable and digital Europe and is structured around the ten principles of the Small Business Act for Europe, which provide a wide range of measures to guide the design and implementation of SME policies. This report marks the fourth edition in this series, following assessments in 2012, 2016, and 2020. It tracks progress made since 2020 and offers the latest key findings on SME development and related policies in the countries of the Eastern Partnership (EaP). It also identifies emerging challenges affecting SMEs in the region and provides recommendations to address them. The 2024 edition benefits from an updated methodology that also offers a deeper analysis of policies to support the digital transformation of SMEs.

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Overview: 2024 SME Policy Index scores and key findings

This section provides an overview of key findings of the 2024 Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) assessment for all Eastern Partner (EaP) countries across the dimensions of the five thematic pillars and the selected framework conditions for the digital transformation, as well as key findings for each country. A detailed analysis and cross-country comparison of each pillar and dimension is presented in Part I of this report, while Part II contains full country profiles. Complete scores per dimension, sub-dimension, and thematic block found in Table 2.22 at the end of this chapter. The scoring methodology is presented in Annex A.

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