Assessment of foreign experience in formation and development self-employment

The article analyzes the foreign experience of the formation and development of selfemployment in the agricultural sector. The experience of developed countries, countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is considered. The systems of regulation and stimulation of self-employment development used in the countries of Western Europe, the USA and Canada are characterized. The issues of the formation and regulation of self-employment in various industries, including in the agricultural sector of the economy, are considered in the example of the post-Soviet countries. Some economic and institutional factors that form the environment for the development of agrarian self-employment in various countries are characterized. The place and role of government programs to support this type of employment in countries of various levels of development are assessed. Determined, with the primary approach, the possibility of applying advanced experience in the development of self-employment in our country.