UNB, Dhaka
Chief Adviser Dr Fakhruddin Ahmed Wednesday spelt out a four-point measure for fair lending to SME sector, with a special focus on helping female entrepreneurs, for flourishing small and medium enterprises in the country.
He advised the commercial banks and financial institutions to ease lending procedure and reduce the existing interest rates for small women entrepreneurs.
Inaugurating the daylong 2nd National Women SME Entrepreneurs Conference 2008, Dr Fakhruddin, an economist and former governor of Bangladesh Bank, put forward the four steps for creating a fair and sustainable loan system in the Small and Medium Enterprise sector. [Read more]