Subject(s): Small business -- Government policy. -- Management -- Developing countries. -- Two sides of MSE employment -- ILO/ seed research papers commissioned for this project -- Employment challenge, enterprise promotion, comparative research project -- Role of policy in small enterprise employment : Policy environment and employment in MSEs, job quality in MSEs, policies and markets- small enterprises -- Compliance- a path from the margins to the mainstream : Legal and regulatory environment, promoting desired enterprise behaviours, compliance as a means for development -- Assessing the policy and legal environment : specific small enterprise promotion policies, business laws and regulations, labour policies, law and regulations, trade policies, finance and credit polices , law and regulations -- Improving the policy and legal environment: general principles of reform, reform agendas within the six policy fields, processes for reform -- Statistical and methodological annex : statistical data by enterprise size classes - source defintions and key indicators, ILO MSE survey 2001- methodology, sample composition and analysis