In the process of political and economic restructuring of our country, inclusion in contemporary trends required the restructuring of society as a whole and economy as its most vital work, and the first steps in that way consisted in the improvement of legal and administrative regulations as the framework in which it operates. With the aim of introducing new business rules and adapting to global conditions, over the last fifteen years, numerous strategies have been adopted at the state and local level, which, in accordance with the principles of neoliberal capitalism, have been guiding the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship. The paper gives a brief overviewof these development documents, as well as an overview of the set goals and selected strategic priorities in accordance with local specifics, which was the point of their development at the local level. Also, in order to evaluate the achieved effects and the ratio of the number of small, medium and large enterprises in the territory of the Nisava Administrative District, the analysis of the movement of the number of active business entities classified by size into small, medium and large enterprises was also conducted. The results indicate that in the analyzed area, the concept that large companies were the bearers of development was abandoned, and that this role, at least judged by the number, took over the sector of small private enterprises.

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