SME Financing Practices in Bangladesh: Scenario and Challenges Evaluation

Rabaya Bosri

The main aim of the study is to evaluate the SME financing scenario and challenges in Bangladesh. At first, researcher want to see the importance of SME in Bangladesh , which sectors get SME financing, which institutions provides the SME financing then analysis the present scenario of SME financing . And, finally this provides key challenges. This study uses Bangladesh Bank data for FY 2011-15,Ministry of Finance, GOB, 2003-2012,Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) and BAPA 2006-2011.The findings of the study suggests that the success rate of SME financing is very high as well as it contributes to the GDP significantly in Bangladesh but disbursement of SME loan is low than industrials loan.