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    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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    Theme
    Small Medium Business
    Economics

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