Bangladesh : The Asian Tiger Myth vs Reality

[Michael Corleone]

Sorry, you said these..... OK, I admit I don't know. Forgive me. After all, most Chinese do not know Bangladesh.
But I know what you mean... Bangladesh let China compromise.
emmm, in short, applause for you.

idk what personal problems you got with me... stop it

 

[N.Siddiqui]

Once again this is pseudo-logic with a side of eliteness . There is no nation wide participation of women in the work force. What you are providing are isolated instances.

How juvenile and churlish...this number of doctors female/male is a nationwide figure and not some isolated or elitist figure...it cuts across the board/across the country. Same with other figures quoted earlier.

Such a waste of time and effort with you being associated since a long time here at PDF...

 

[SBUS-CXK]

idk what personal problems you got with me... stop it

Oh no. Please don't misunderstand me. There is no personal problems between us. we just have different knowledge reserves.

you know, most Chinese don't care about Bangladesh. so when some people say that China is trying to interfere in Bangladesh.....

That's how we feel.

 

[Hakikat ve Hikmet]

Hope by female emancipation it does not mean this...and women at work too....


From Bangladeshi brothels, the voices of the prostitutes trapped in the prison of sexual slavery

https://www.lifegate.com/people/news/bangladeshi-brothels-faridpur



Growing number of Bangladeshi women in Indian brothels

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangla...wing-number-bangladeshi-women-indian-brothels

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10173115



Overall Female labor force participation for females in Pakistan is 26.066% and for BD it is 34.755%...not a huge difference looking into in the context of big numbers of women in RMG industry in B'desh...


Labor force participation rate, female (% of female population ages 15-64) (modeled ILO estimate)


https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.TLF.ACTI.FE.ZS?locations=PK

For the Eshref folks honor isn’t for sale, so they keep the nukes handy!!!! No wonder the Etret folks don’t understand it to begin with....

 

[nahtanbob]

In BD standard, you need a female PM to be sent to work as a part-time cook* in the Indian Presidential Palace in Delhi, the rape capital of the world!!! And, that's the women emancipation...

*Hasina cooked for the Indian President Pranab Mukerjee while in an official visit to India

What is so bad about cooking ? you have some serious pyschological issues

 

[Chakar The Great]

You will certainly love to watch this video clip. Do not please lose your sleep. It may cause accidents when you drive a car day time. Do not worry about Chanakya neighbor because we already have successfully gotten rid of our tormentors in the west of India. Within the next twenty years, our GDP will grow to $1,000 billion. How about the Pakistani GDP at that time?

@Chakar The Great

Who is he? I dont have time for it.

 

[Bilal9]

How juvenile and churlish...this number of doctors female/male is a nationwide figure and not some isolated or elitist figure...it cuts across the board/across the country. Same with other figures quoted earlier.

Such a waste of time and effort with you being associated since a long time here at PDF...

The higher number of female doctors in Pakistan is explained by the fact that a bride's status and desirability is increased by multitudes when she becomes a highly trained doctor.

But after marriage, few females go on to be practicing doctors, degree is good enough.

I explained this in a thread here maybe six months back.

Besides, there is precious few other acceptable chaste ghairat-mand professions for females in Pakistan that is not looked down upon, especially for lower-middle-class conservative Pakistanis.

What is so bad about cooking ? you have some serious pyschological issues

For his mediaeval a$$, cooking is 'womens' work, and not a hobby for both males and females.

I don't know where these people crawl out of. Lord is this 2019. or 719??

 

[Bengal71]

For the Eshref folks honor isn’t for sale, so they keep the nukes handy!!!! No wonder the Etret folks don’t understand it to begin with....

Ashraf and Ajlaf/Atraf are medieval concenpts concocted by Ziauddin Barrani during the Delhi Sultanate which is also in collision with the Islamic concept of equality. This crap is not for the 21st century and you are a medieval creature who believes in this and in direct collision with Islam.

Alas, you are not even Ashraf as per the criteria of Al Barrani since you are a Pakistani wannabe Turk.

@Bilal9

 

[Michael Corleone]

you know, most Chinese don't care about Bangladesh. so when some people say that China is trying to interfere in Bangladesh.....

That's how we feel.

well i didn't say china care about bd... china cares about china and that's one reason it;s on top of the world now
but china has interests in bd and the same thing scares one of your neighboring rivals india...

you surely can't deny that

 

[Fledgingwings]

These guys never know when to stop,do they

 

[Nilgiri]

These guys never know when to stop,do they

Just look at post 37 lol. Just speechless the level of idiocy on display. They can never accept Pakistan is better at something or even doing ok and improving at something......if it somehow detracts away from Bangladesh in the slightest.

This particular one has been like that ever since I posted the reality of his society compared to Pakistan where Bangladesh govt cannot hide/fake the data as much:

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.ADO.TFRT?locations=BD-PK

But of course womens liberation feelz can prove things beyond such data! BAL STRONK.

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[Bilal9]

Ashraf and Ajlaf/Atraf are medieval concenpts concocted by Ziauddin Barrani during the Delhi Sultanate which is also in collision with the Islamic concept of equality. This crap is not for the 21st century and you are a medieval creature who believes in this and in direct collision with Islam.

Alas, you are not even Ashraf as per the criteria of Al Barrani since you are a Pakistani wannabe Turk.

@Bilal9

Ha ha ha

Now Pakistani posters are trying to post threads on how bad the status of women is in Bangladesh compared to Pakistan...all I can do now is roll my eyes....

 

[Bilal9]

Gender Gap in Pakistan is not narrowing but growing....I guess majority Pakistani folks think it is par for the course....
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Gender gap index puts Pakistan in second-last place
Mubarak Zeb KhanUpdated October 26, 2016
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ranked the second-worst country in the world for gender inequality for the second consecutive year.

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2016, released on Tuesday, Pakistan ranks 143 out of 144 countries in the gender inequality index, way behind Bangladesh and India which rank 72nd and 87th respectively.

Pakistan is also the worst performing state in South Asia and has been for the last couple of years, while Sri Lanka ranks 100th, Nepal 110th, the Maldives 115th and Bhutan 121st.

Declared worst-performing country in South Asia; only Yemen is ranked lower
The only country ranked below Pakistan is Yemen (144), while Syria is one place ahead at 142.

ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD

Pakistan ranked 112th in 2006, the first year of the report. Since then, its position has been deteriorating every year. Pakistan ranked 135th in 2013, 141st in 2014 and 143rd in 2015.

The report captures progress towards parity between men and women in four areas: educational attainment, health and survival, economic opportunity and political empowerment.

In its latest edition, the report finds that progress towards parity in the economic pillar has slowed dramatically with the gap — which stands at 59pc — now larger than at any point since 2008.

Iceland took the top spot for the 8th consecutive year, followed by Finland in second and Norway in third place. Several developing and emerging markets have also made it into the top 20, but the United States ranks 45.

Amir Jahangir, CEO of Mishal Pakistan — the partner institute of the WEF’s Global Competitiveness and Benchmarking Network — told Dawn Pakistan was one of the few countries in the world that did not have woman as a federal minister; only two state ministers at the centre are women.

He further said the provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, each also had only one woman minister in their cabinet, while Balochistan has no women in the cabinet.

The report notes that while Pakistan is making progress on closing the secondary education enrolment gender gap, and on women’s estimated earned income, but this is partly offset by reversals on wage equality and female-to-male literacy ratio.

Pakistan’s scores on the four pillars have not improved much from past years; its ranking in the Economic Participation and Opportunity and Education Attainment indexes have not changed since 2015.

On the Health and Survival pillar, Pakistan has moved up one rank from 125 last year to 124 this year. However, on Political Empowerment, Pakistan has been ranked 90th as compared to 87th the previous year.

In South Asia, Bangladesh and India are the top-ranked countries, having closed just under 70pc and 68pc of their overall gender gap, respectively, while the lowest-ranked countries are Bhutan and Pakistan, having closed 64pc and 56pc of their overall gender gap, respectively.

No country in the region has fully closed its Educational Attainment gender gap, and only one country, Sri Lanka, has fully closed its Health and Survival gender gap. However, the region is also home to one of the top five climbers over the past decade on the overall Index and on Educational Attainment: Nepal.

Published in Dawn, October 26th, 2016

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In the past thirty years, Bangladesh has undergone profound PERMANENT social changes, many of which have impacted gender inequality.

• Fertility rates have been halved,
• Infant mortality has improved compared to South Asian neighbors (in fact most of SE Asia)
• Gender gap in primary and secondary schooling, has been narrowed or closed altogether,
• The availability of micro-credit has boosted the solidarity of women as well as their earning potential, and
• Large numbers of young women are leaving their villages to work in garment factories.

These facts are on stark contrast to Bangladesh' neighbors, as well as those of HDI indicators.

 

[Bilal9]

The latest Gender Gap Report is here for 2018 (refine by region of South Asia),

http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2018/data-explorer/

Bangladesh is ranked 48th (almost at par with Israel/Mexico/US).

India is at the 108th spot.

Pakistan is at 148th spot, besting only ONE medieval country, Yemen.

 

[fallstuff]

Gender Gap in Pakistan is not narrowing but growing....I guess majority Pakistani folks think it is par for the course....
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Gender gap index puts Pakistan in second-last place
Mubarak Zeb KhanUpdated October 26, 2016
Facebook Count
Twitter Share

65
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has been ranked the second-worst country in the world for gender inequality for the second consecutive year.

According to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report 2016, released on Tuesday, Pakistan ranks 143 out of 144 countries in the gender inequality index, way behind Bangladesh and India which rank 72nd and 87th respectively.

Pakistan is also the worst performing state in South Asia and has been for the last couple of years, while Sri Lanka ranks 100th, Nepal 110th, the Maldives 115th and Bhutan 121st.

Declared worst-performing country in South Asia; only Yemen is ranked lower
The only country ranked below Pakistan is Yemen (144), while Syria is one place ahead at 142.

ARTICLE CONTINUES AFTER AD

Pakistan ranked 112th in 2006, the first year of the report. Since then, its position has been deteriorating every year. Pakistan ranked 135th in 2013, 141st in 2014 and 143rd in 2015.

The report captures progress towards parity between men and women in four areas: educational attainment, health and survival, economic opportunity and political empowerment.

In its latest edition, the report finds that progress towards parity in the economic pillar has slowed dramatically with the gap — which stands at 59pc — now larger than at any point since 2008.

Iceland took the top spot for the 8th consecutive year, followed by Finland in second and Norway in third place. Several developing and emerging markets have also made it into the top 20, but the United States ranks 45.

Amir Jahangir, CEO of Mishal Pakistan — the partner institute of the WEF’s Global Competitiveness and Benchmarking Network — told Dawn Pakistan was one of the few countries in the world that did not have woman as a federal minister; only two state ministers at the centre are women.

He further said the provinces of Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, each also had only one woman minister in their cabinet, while Balochistan has no women in the cabinet.

The report notes that while Pakistan is making progress on closing the secondary education enrolment gender gap, and on women’s estimated earned income, but this is partly offset by reversals on wage equality and female-to-male literacy ratio.

Pakistan’s scores on the four pillars have not improved much from past years; its ranking in the Economic Participation and Opportunity and Education Attainment indexes have not changed since 2015.

On the Health and Survival pillar, Pakistan has moved up one rank from 125 last year to 124 this year. However, on Political Empowerment, Pakistan has been ranked 90th as compared to 87th the previous year.

In South Asia, Bangladesh and India are the top-ranked countries, having closed just under 70pc and 68pc of their overall gender gap, respectively, while the lowest-ranked countries are Bhutan and Pakistan, having closed 64pc and 56pc of their overall gender gap, respectively.

No country in the region has fully closed its Educational Attainment gender gap, and only one country, Sri Lanka, has fully closed its Health and Survival gender gap. However, the region is also home to one of the top five climbers over the past decade on the overall Index and on Educational Attainment: Nepal.

Published in Dawn, October 26th, 2016

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In the past thirty years, Bangladesh has undergone profound PERMANENT social changes, many of which have impacted gender inequality.

• Fertility rates have been halved,
• Infant mortality has improved compared to South Asian neighbors (in fact most of SE Asia)
• Gender gap in primary and secondary schooling, has been narrowed or closed altogether,
• The availability of micro-credit has boosted the solidarity of women as well as their earning potential, and
• Large numbers of young women are leaving their villages to work in garment factories.

These facts are on stark contrast to Bangladesh' neighbors, as well as those of HDI indicators.

This guy knows the truth he is just not willing to accept it.
I don't like labels like " tiger economy" , its just a distraction. There are just so much more work to do. The goal should be to double the size of GDP per capita in next 7 or 8 years.