The Potentiality of Women Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh with Special Reference to Sylhet Region

This paper justifies the potentiality of the women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. For this purpose, Sylhet is taken as a study area which can be the prospective sectors for the women entrepreneurs. Huge amount of foreign remittance comes here from abroad that can be utilized in this sector successfull...

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Main Authors: Chowdhury, Sakufa, Rahman, Md. Mizanur
Format: PDF Document
Language:eng
Published: i-Proclaim 2014
Subjects:
SME
Online Access:https://i-proclaim.my/journals/index.php/gdeb/article/view/155
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Summary:This paper justifies the potentiality of the women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. For this purpose, Sylhet is taken as a study area which can be the prospective sectors for the women entrepreneurs. Huge amount of foreign remittance comes here from abroad that can be utilized in this sector successfully, and the mindset of people are not so fundamental. All of these issues are supporting to work in this region. Besides these, studying in this sector it is found that the women entrepreneurs of this region are more industrious, self-confident, dynamic, ambitious, adaptable and possess risk taking capacity and last but not the least are creative and innovative. It is obviously profitable sector which is clear after analyzing the data. Attempts also have been made here to find out the characteristics and the contributions of the women entrepreneurs to prove themselves not only as the emerging tigers but also as the economically empowered, solvent, respected and above all a contributor in the national income in this third world country, the obstacles they are facing and also the probable solutions in this context. JEL Classification Code: M100, M130