http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/123456789/229 Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:41:55 GMT 2026-04-23T16:41:55Z http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/20.500.11948/641 Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship Development: Bangladesh Perspective Bhuiyan, Mohammad Badruzzaman; Abdullah, Rubab Half of the brainpower on Earth is in the heads of women. They provide an essential opportunity for economic and social development and progress. Women’s participation in any kind of economic activity is of a complementary nature to their family incomes; their participation in no way reduces their family duties. Women’s equal rights are now defined by women’s economic empowerment and the ultimate empowerment is through entrepreneurship. So, Government and private sector interventions have generally accelerated income-generating activities of women both in the urban and rural areas with entrepreneurship development. The ways in which women are involved in this sector are through selling labor (Wage labor), engaging in trading activities (self employment) and operating small industrial productions (enterprise owners).Working as labor may give them temporary employment but it does not improve their conditions or promote their advancement. Scope of trading activities especially in the rural areas, in view of extensive poverty and the large number of people who need to engage in income earning activities, is limited. Engaging in production or rural industrial activities seem to be the most viable avenue for which the women should be assisted to take up. Non-government organizations have equally joined hands with the government efforts for economic salvation and provided various forms of opportunities for women to help them earn living, paving the way for greater entrepreneurship development. Women have now become aware of their socio economic rights and have ventured to avail the opportunities initiated for them. Rural Bangladesh is now a changed scenario for the women who have gathered courage to break barriers and enter the off house working force as entrepreneurs and workers- a situation not appropriate for women or accepted by the society in the past. The urban areas have greater opportunities for business development but the areas where women lack assistance are in the access to credit, provision of skill training, and market facilities Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/20.500.11948/641 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/20.500.11948/640 The Environment of E-Commerce in Bangladesh Debnath, Nitai Chandra; Mahmud, Abdullah Al Electronic commerce is rapidly growing as an impressive manifestation of globalization. The rapid expansion of e-commerce is a major opportunity for local and international trade development of LDCs including Bangladesh. However, infrastructure, culture, and attitude are significant barriers to e-commerce. Bangladesh government has gone forward except minor lacking to create an e- commerce friendly environment. One thing to be noted is that success in e- commerce does not depend on access and connectivity alone. Information Technology also depends on the fortitude of the entrepreneur of taking advantage of the e-commerce revolution. Proper awareness building programs among the people and business community are required to establish, maintain and growth of e- commerce. This study concentrates on assessing the elements of the environment relating to e-commerce to get the best picture of the prevailing condition and then recommending some areas of improvement on the basis of the assessment for deploying e-commerce in Bangladesh. Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/20.500.11948/640 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/20.500.11948/639 Strengths and Weaknesses of Teaching Fluent Reading: A Study at the Tertiary Level in Bangladesh Rahman, Mohammad Mustafizur; Jahan, Akhter This paper explores the importance of developing fluent reading skill and tends to find out the strengths and weaknesses of its teaching at the tertiary level in Bangladesh. In order to give our students sufficient exposure to English, we have to solve the problems of learning and teaching fluent reading in English and find out effective ways of approaching this significant skill. With reference to research evidence, that we have studied both from the teachers’ and students’ point of view on the basis of a questionnaire survey, we now turn to the role of fluent reading in fostering learners’ progress in reading skill as well as developing the other three major skills-listening, speaking and writing. Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/20.500.11948/639 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/20.500.11948/638 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Financing Revisited: Lessons for Bangladesh Bhuiya, Md. Alamgir Hossain; Uddin, Md. Kamal Based on existing literature this paper provides a clearly conceptual framework for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) financing in the global context. The conceptual framework has been organized in terms of some selected crucial aspects, such as: the financial institution structures; the lending infrastructures, and finally the lending strategies in using SME financing. The financial institution structures deals with the comparative advantages of different types of financial institutions. Here we focus mainly on the comparative advantages of large vs. small financial institutions; foreign-owned vs. domestically-owned institutions, and state-owned vs. privately-owned institutions in lending to SMEs. The lending infrastructure includes: the information environment; the legal, judicial and bankruptcy environment, and finally the tax and regulatory environments, all of which may directly or indirectly affect SME credit availability. Regarding lending strategies, we focus mainly on the core technologies such as: financial statement lending; small business credit scoring; asset-based lending; factoring; trade credit, and finally the relationship lending technology. We focus on the parts of the financial system that are most relevant to SME finance. We concentrate on the private debt markets that provide external finance to SMEs, and exclude discussions of the public equity and debt markets, which are generally beyond the reach of SMEsSmall and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Financing Revisited: Lessons for Bangladesh Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd:8080/handle/20.500.11948/638 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z