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Журнал «Интернаука» № 6 (<strong>40</strong>), 2018 г.<br />
Figure 1. The share of small business entities in%<br />
Source: www.stat.gov.az<br />
The National Fund for Entrepreneurship Support<br />
has been created in our country to create favorable<br />
conditions for small entrepreneurship assistance<br />
programs, organization of implementation of these<br />
programs, and access to financial resources for small<br />
entrepreneurship entities. The Statute of the Fund was<br />
approved by the Decree of the President of the Republic<br />
of Azerbaijan dated August 27, 2002, No 779. The<br />
following provisions have been defined as the<br />
objectives of the Fund:<br />
Take measures to create financial support for<br />
entrepreneurship development in the Republic of<br />
Azerbaijan;<br />
to promote the economic policy of the state on<br />
the basis of attracting and rational use of financial<br />
resources for the purpose of promoting<br />
entrepreneurship, especially small entrepreneurship;<br />
to fund programs for entrepreneurship<br />
development;<br />
provide financial support for the implementation<br />
of investment projects and programs related to the<br />
priorities of the economy;<br />
to participate in the development and<br />
implementation of sectoral and regional programs and<br />
investment projects that promote entrepreneurship,<br />
healthy competition and commodity market, creation of<br />
new jobs;<br />
The main directions of the use of the National Fund<br />
for Entrepreneurship Support are [5]: - Establishment of<br />
large breeding cattle breeding complexes for breeding<br />
and milking;<br />
Creation or rehabilitation of modern poultry<br />
farms;<br />
creation of logistics centers (storage,<br />
transportation and sale of food and non food products); -<br />
establishing enterprises for processing fruit and<br />
vegetable products meeting modern requirements;<br />
Creation of large grain or seed farms;<br />
Creation of oily plants planting and processing<br />
facilities;<br />
creation of mixed feed production facilities;<br />
Creation of modern greenhouse complexes;<br />
establishment of intensive gardening (grape,<br />
apple, pomegranate, etc.) or cereals; Creation of<br />
intensive viticulture farms and grape processing<br />
facilities;<br />
creation of modern bakery production facilities;<br />
Establishment of other industries (light, construction,<br />
chemical, mechanical engineering, etc.);<br />
development of small entrepreneurship<br />
(including youth, women, people with disabilities and<br />
IDPs).<br />
In 2016, the Foundation provided entrepreneurs<br />
with 32 million 506 million manats, and preferential<br />
loans. In 2016, the funds allocated to the 2427 projects<br />
provided by entrepreneurs created opportunities for the<br />
creation of 8,106 new jobs (Table 1).<br />
Areas of economics<br />
The number<br />
of projects<br />
Special<br />
weight<br />
( %)<br />
Amount of loan<br />
(thousand AZN )<br />
Special<br />
weight<br />
(%)<br />
Number of new<br />
jobs to be created<br />
(people)<br />
Production and processing of various<br />
industrial products<br />
121 4.9 32506.3 17.2 1112<br />
Agricultural products processingı 12 0.5 22542 11.9 674<br />
Production of agricultural products 2336 94.3 120876.8 63.8 5213<br />
The development of service brunches<br />
(infrastructure)<br />
8 0.3 13495 7.1 1107<br />
Total 2477 100 189420.1 100 8106<br />
Concessional loans granted to small<br />
entrepreneurship subjects by the National Fund for<br />
Entrepreneurship Support under the Ministry of<br />
Economy and Industry of the Republic of Azerbaijan in<br />
2016<br />
Source: www.anfes.gov.az<br />
1 AZN=0.59$ USD<br />
1AZN= 33.30 RUB<br />
Note: Exchange rates as of October 2017.<br />
We believe that the specific weight of the oil factor<br />
in GDP development at the present stage of the<br />
Azerbaijani economy should be reduced to the non-oil<br />
sector development and the optimum level of<br />
government support for entrepreneurial activity in the<br />
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