OREANDA-NEWS. December 28, 2012. Denis Konanchuk, Head of the SKOLKOVO business school Education Development Centre, moderated the panel discussion on the topic “Boosting employment through small and medium enterprises and entrepreneurship development” at the International Conference on Decent Work.

The panel participants talked over the measures that are needed to make sure that small and medium enterprises can fulfill their role as leading source of job creation, access to finance, ways of improving the supply and scale of business support services, and key factors contributing to enabling business environment.

The International Conference on Decent Work became a platform for focused discussion on issues of globalization of the labour market, creating effective jobs, ensuring social guarantees in the workplace and labour standards implementation. Labour ministers as well as representatives of employers, labour unions and expert organizations from 76 countries participated in the conference.