Fostering Business Development and Digitalisation in Georgia
OECD · 2022
The Government of Georgia has made significant policy efforts over the past years to build an environment conducive to private sector development and entrepreneurship, and to support small and medium-sized enterprises in particular.The OECD has supported this reform impetus, working closely with the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (MoESD) to help identify gaps and develop relevant measures to create a conducive policy environment for Georgian SMEs.Georgia participated and featured as top improver in the three rounds of Small Business Act assessment for the Eastern Partner countries, which resulted in the corresponding OECD publications SME Policy Index: Eastern Partner countries 2012, 2016 and 2020.In parallel, at country-level, the OECD supported the design of Georgia's SME development strategy 2016-2020, and assessed the progress made in the implementation in 2018.As a follow-up to this work and upon request of the MoESD