{"id":282994,"date":"2026-06-27T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/new-age-blended-finance-technology-crucial-to-turn-cmsmes-into-growth-engine\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T14:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:45:23","slug":"new-age-blended-finance-technology-crucial-to-turn-cmsmes-into-growth-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/new-age-blended-finance-technology-crucial-to-turn-cmsmes-into-growth-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"New Age | Blended finance, technology crucial to turn CMSMEs into growth engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newagebd.net\/post\/new-age-specials\/304146\/blended-finance-technology-crucial-to-turn-cmsmes-into-growth-engine\">New Age | Blended finance, technology crucial to turn CMSMEs into growth engine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newagebd.net\/post\/new-age-specials\/304146\/blended-finance-technology-crucial-to-turn-cmsmes-into-growth-engine\">https:\/\/www.newagebd.net\/post\/new-age-specials\/304146\/blended-finance-technology-crucial-to-turn-cmsmes-into-growth-engine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-27 11:41:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.newagebd.net\">www.newagebd.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             Fazlul Kader Chowdhury.                             <\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh must prioritise technological adaptation, digital market access and blended finance to pull cottage, micro, small and medium enterprises out of the low-productivity trap and turn it into a major engine of employment-led economic growth, said Palli Karma-Sahayak Foundation managing director Fazlul Kader Chowdhury.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with New Age, Kader highlighted that millions of small entrepreneurs remain trapped in a cycle of low productivity, low income, and low profitability, despite making up the majority of the country\u2019s businesses and workforce.<\/p>\n<p>To break this cycle, he argued that technology must become the central driver for transforming cottage and micro enterprises, improving production efficiency, cutting costs, expanding market access, and enabling data-driven business decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Technology is already in the hands of people. The challenge is how to use it productively for CMSMEs,\u2019 Fazlul Kader said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that digital tools had reached most parts of Bangladesh, including rural areas, creating opportunities that were not available to earlier generations.<\/p>\n<p>The task now, he said, is to connect these technologies with production, finance, marketing, and business planning and value-chain development.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Our main task is to determine how this technology can be put to good use for CMSMEs,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Bangladesh has more than one crore CMSMEs, while cottage and micro enterprises account for more than 92 per cent of the total.<\/p>\n<p>PKSF mainly works with cottage and micro enterprises, which currently have around 2.25 crore clients across the country, including nearly 40 lakh small entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n<p>Although CMSMEs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newagebd.net\/post\/new-age-specials\/304146\/blended-finance-technology-crucial-to-turn-cmsmes-into-growth-engine\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Age | Blended finance, technology crucial to turn CMSMEs into growth engine https:\/\/www.newagebd.net\/post\/new-age-specials\/304146\/blended-finance-technology-crucial-to-turn-cmsmes-into-growth-engine Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/outspoken.newagebd.com\/files\/img\/202606\/dcd84ef43803476f913cff96dc197b2a_og.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282996,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282994\/revisions\/282996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}