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The three national studies on Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka covering plastics industry, agro-industry (coffee and ginger products) and industrial rubber and electronics products sectors strongly emphasized that SMEs in South Asia, despite having tremendous potential for growth and employment creation, were still in a precarious situation. Perennial problems such as a lack of financing, inadequate infrastructures, inaccessibility of public services and inadequate market intelligence were still major constraints hindering SMEs in South Asia. Such problems were further aggravated due to a lack of information on the markets, technological backwardness, inadequacy of human resources (both managerial and technical) and an intense competition coming from large domestic and foreign enterprises as a result of openness and economic liberalization measures.

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