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Finance Adviser Dr Mirza Azizul Islam inaugurating a
micro-credit fair at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Centre
being held under the aegis of PKSF yesterday. Focus
Bangla

BSS, Dhaka

Finance and Planning Adviser Dr AB Mirza Azizul Islam yesterday stressed the need for inter-linkages between small and large enterprises to help propel overall national economic growth.

" The small entrepreneurs can produce well but their marketing capacity is limited" he said while inaugurating micro credit fair at Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Center here organised by Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF).

PKSF chairman Professor Dr Wahiduddin Mahmud presided over the function also addressed, among others, by PKSF MD Dr Kazi Mesbahuddin Ahmed.

The adviser pointed out that uses and characterstics of micro credit were changing sharply and said once micro-credit was known for only generating self-employ ment but, now a days, it was also creating wage employments across the country.

He also underscored the need for changing food habit in the face of current food crisis and asked for exploring the windows of micro-credit in this regard.

Dr Aziz also mentioned the contribution of micro-credit in the aftermath of hurricane Sidr and two consecutive floods especially in combating poverty in the country by raising the community people's resilience to face the disasters.

The adviser went round different stalls of the fair which will be open from 10 am to 8 pm every day till April 29.