FACTORS AFFECTING THE ACCESS TO CREDIT OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN SOME SELECTED AREAS OF DHAKA DISTRICT

Abstract

Entrepreneurship has become a popular vocation among Bangladeshi women at all levels of society.Most of the women entrepreneurs favour to work in small businesses. Access to finance is one of the reasons why women entrepreneurs rarely grow beyond a particular size. The study's purpose is to learn more about the socioeconomic situation of women entrepreneurs as well as to address the significant factors that affecting women entrepreneurs' financing facilities.This is a descriptive study, most of the data are primary and few secondary data were also used. The SPSS software was used to evaluate the data. This study found that socioeconomic variables and few factors like collateral, literacy level had a great influence on women entrepreneurs’ access to credit. This research recommended that concerned authorities may developed various simple techniques for women entrepreneurs’ to acquire financial facilities and provide them at an affordable cost so that they may return them easily.