Keywords
Entrepreneurial Prospects
Business Challenges
Resilience
Financial Access
Policy Support
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Abstract
In our country like India, the MSME sector is being considered as the backbone of district economic growth and that helps in diversification, creating jobs and innovations of their industries. These businesses are still facing with a continuous challenge where it touches the facilities such as infrastructure, finance, skilled labour and regulatory compliance. The backdrop is against that the current study seeks to evaluate the opportunities which are existing to the MSME entrepreneurs. For the purpose, it is to investigate the nature of the problems that limit performance and also review the relationship that exists between the two dimensions. A sample of the entrepreneurs was surveyed using a structured questionnaire intended to assess the perception of growth opportunities and business issues from Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Erode District, Tamil Nadu. The results explicitly brought out that the MSME entrepreneurs in the erode district believe strongly that there are excellent growth
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