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Needs Hierarchy, Motivational Factors and Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

Every human being is driven by his/her desire to reach his/her needs, whereby the needs evolve to more ambitious needs once the most fundamental needs have been achieved. To reach more ambitious needs, accommodating socio-economic infrastructures and appropriate government support are required. Based on various surveys, this paper examines the needs hierarchy of Bangladeshi people as well as the main hindrances for not reaching higher up needs in Bangladesh. It analyzes the motivational factors of Bangladeshi employees and looks into the possibility and desirability of employees to become entrepreneurs in Bangladesh. Linking Bangladesh’s needs hierarchy, employee motivation and entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, the paper concludes with suggestions for measures that should be taken in an integrated way by individuals, family, social institutions and government to enable and encourage entrepreneurship in Bangladesh

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Socio-Economic Impact of Women Entrepreneurship in Sylhet City, Bangladesh

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This paper focuses on exploring the socio-economic impact of women entrepreneurship. Based on primary and secondary sources, it is found that nearly three quarters of the women entrepreneurs in Sylhet city are married and that they are mainly involved in tailoring and beauty parlor businesses. About half of the women entrepreneurs use their income for family purposes and most of them do not need permission of their husbands in using their income. Women entrepreneurship typically brings a positive change in attitude and behavior of family members and society towards them. Women‟s involvement in economic activities is greatly needed, not only for their own development but also for the overall economic growth of the country. Though the Bangladeshi government has taken significant initiatives through different ministries to enhance women entrepreneurship, these initiatives are not always effective. This paper provides also some recommendations for policy makers to undertake suitable and effective policies towards women development.

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Labour Intensive Export DevelopmentPolicies and Strategies

Jamshed Uz Zaman
Md.Abdus Samad Sarker
BIBM

Summary:

This paper tries to explore the policies and strategies that should be followed in developing export sector of Bangladesh in order to address the unemployment problem. In exploring this, the paper studied other empirical research works and found that as capital is very scarce, Bangladesh must embark upon a labour intensive export

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SOURCES OF OUTPUT GROWTH IN BANGLADESH FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRIES: A DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS

Ruhil A Salim
K.P. Kalirajan
The Developing Economies, XXXVII-3 (September 1999):
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Within the industrial sector, the growth of the food processing industry is particularly important for Bangladesh as this is one of the major industries in terms of contribution to total manufacturing production and employment. For example, it ranks second only to textiles in terms of the value of output and

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MICROENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT: NOT BY CREDIT ALONE

Asian Development Bank 1997
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has substantially increased the support which it provides for microcredit. Since 1988, it has approved ten loan projects supporting microenterprise development, amounting to about $147 million. It is possible that five projects to support microcredit may be approved during 1997 and ADB

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