Study on Mapping the Market Potential and Accelerating Finance for Women Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh
International Finance Corporation (IFC) conducted a survey to identify opportunities and provide recommendations for facilitating finance for women small and medium enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs. Various stakeholders were interviewed during the su...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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International Finance Corporation, Washington, D.C.
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/354971490957587126/Study-on-mapping-the-market-potential-and-accelerating-finance-for-women-entrepreneurs-in-Bangladesh http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26433 |
| Summary: | International Finance Corporation (IFC)
conducted a survey to identify opportunities and provide
recommendations for facilitating finance for women small and
medium enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs. Various stakeholders
were interviewed during the survey which included 500 women
SME entrepreneurs, women centric business associations,
relevant government organizations as well as other
associated institutions. Given the lack of gender based
assessments in access to credit for women SME entrepreneurs
in Bangladesh, the survey report aimed at identifying the
potential opportunities for facilitating finance to these
entrepreneurs. This also involved developing comprehensive
knowledge of the environment that women entrepreneurs
operate in and in estimating their current financing gap.
Alongside this, the study sought to highlight the major
challenges faced by these entrepreneurs that prevent a
satisfactory uptake of loan products. |
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