Removing barriers to SME access to international markets.
Contributors: OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship.; APEC Small and Medium Enterprises Working Group.; Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Publisher: OECD
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9789264040243
Subjects: Small business -- Congresses; Small business -- Government policy -- Congresses; Foreign trade promotion -- Congresses; International trade -- Congresses; Non-tariff trade barriers -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: Although SMEs are a major source of growth and job creation, SMEs appear to be under-represented in the international economy relative to their contribution in national and local economies. Two original OECD-APEC surveys investigated how SME policy makers and SMEs perceive the barriers to SME access to international markets. This proceedings presents a report on the results of the surveys, a synthesis of the conference discussions, and the main outcome of the conference: the Athens Action Plan for Removing Barriers to SME Access to International Markets.
Notes: Includes a background report for and presentations from a global conference organized by the OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship in co-operation with the APEC SME Working Group, and held in Athens, Nov. 6-8, 2006.

Also available in French under the title: Supprimer les obstacles à l'accès des PME aux marchés internationaux.

Includes bibliographical references.