A Comparative Study on Clusters and non-Clusters Based SME Development in Bangladesh: Executive Summary
Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development | October 2020
Abstract
The main objective of the study is to assess the comparative performance of the enterprises under the cluster and those of the enterprises outside clusters. The study also aims to identify the barriers and challenges along with the recommendations of clusterbased SME development. To fulfill the study objectives, the study adopts and employs a number of approaches and methodologies. They are an enterprise survey a number of key informant interviews (KIIs), a number of meetings or focus group discussions (FGDs) and three case studies. The study also uses secondary level information as well information obtained from consulting with the SMEF. The enterprise survey, KIIs, and meetings or FGDs include both includes cluster and non-cluster SMEs. The sample size for the enterprise survey is 500 (250 cluster SMEs and 250 non-cluster SMEs). The KIIs includes 75 clusters KIIs and 75 non-cluster SMEs. The meeting consists of15 cluster meetings and 15 non-cluster meetings. Several descriptive, statistical, and econometric methods have been used to process various sets of data and to examine the study objectives. The methods mainly include frequency distribution, a simple t-statistics and several ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions analyses. Based on various analyses, the findings of the study are summarized as follows.
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Studies, Bangladesh Institute of Development. 2020. A Comparative Study on Clusters and non-Clusters Based SME Development in Bangladesh: Executive Summary. © Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/13252.Keywords
Small Business Finance
Trade Facilitation
Trade
Economic integration
Regional Economic Integration
Intraregional Trade
Economic Welfare
Economic Incentives
Macroeconomic
Macroeconomic Analysis
Development Economics
Regional Economic Development
Economic Impact
Asian Development Bank
Development
Macroeconomic
Macroeconomic Analysis
Macroeconomic Framework
Macroeconomic Models
Macroeconomic Performance
Macroeconomic Planning
Macroeconomic Policies
Macroeconomic Reform
Macroeconomic Stabilization
Small business
Medium business
Small to medium sized enterprises
SMEs
Economic planning
Economic structure
Growth policy
Trade relations
Trade policy
Trade Regulations
Exchange Rate
Economic zones
Protection
Economies in transition
Economic agreements
Development indicators
ADB
Economic development
Gross domestic product
Employment
Economic forecast
Economic indicators
Growth models
Gross domestic product
Macroeconomics
Economic forecast
Social condition
Economic dependence
Economic assistance
Technology assessment
Small business
Business
Economics
Communication in economic development
Restraint of trade
International economic integration
Trade blocs
East-West
Exchange rates
Economic Zones
Regional economics
Economic forecasting
Economic development projects
Success in business
Business
Welfare economics
Welfare state
Poor
Food relief
Poverty
Domestic economic assistance
Comparative economics
Regional economics
Economic development projects
Open price system
Price fixing
Price regulation
Consumer price indexes
Financial crisis
Labor economics
Regional economics
Turnover
Economic survey
Income Distribution
Purchasing power
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