Women entrepreneurs in Bangladesh face 10 challenges: Experts
They also came up with four recommendations to face the challenges
Experts discussed 10 challenges that women entrepreneurs in the country experience while doing export-oriented business.
They unveiled the challenges during a seminar at the Eighth National Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Product Fair on Thursday at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre.
The challenges are lack of self-confidence and freedom of movement, lack of information about development programmes, inability to collect right documents, lack of know-how on export marketing, technical knowledge, lack of export-oriented products, capital crisis, low quality products, knowledge lacking about export process, and transport and residential crisis.
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They also came up with four recommendations to face the challenges.
The recommendations are: support from law enforcing agencies and financial institutions, training over export business, infrastructural and marketing support and organising various seminar-workshops and discussions.
SME Foundation's Managing Director Md Shafiqul Islam presided over the seminar that was held on Thursday, the second day of the eight-day long fair.
The fair was opened from 11am to 2pm only for the foreign visitors.
