Rethink urged on incentives for SMEs

The OECD favours a Government rethink of incentives to help SMEs.

The report finds multinationals continued to thrive here during the crisis, but the productivity of indigenous SMEs continued to falter despite the collapse of the construction industry, which typically had low levels of innovation and production.

It notes that the trend of falling productivity for smaller companies is common across most OECD countries for some time.