Ah yes exports which are only 23 billion more in 2019 compared to 2010 truly impressive performance bravo indian teach us your ways.
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Bangladesh utilized its least developed nation tag to improve its RMG exports to other developed countries which have higher demand for RMG yet they don’t have much textile production because it would be costly.
Many global fashion brands have their manufacturing unit (either contract based or invested unit) in Bangladesh. They get it worked out in Bangladesh because of its very cheap labor cost & sell those garments at sky high prices.
Bangladesh utilized its image extremely well & made out its economy on garments. Being mostly focused on it, they did good at their work.
While Pakistan faced problems because of terrorism, war with Afghanistan & India, growing population and other such issues. Comparatively, Bangladesh was doing well as it didn’t mess with its neighboring countries, neither had terrorism problem as severe as Pakistan, less (yet ample) population growth, it focused on industrial development, basically you can say textiles development.
Being consistently working on what it was good at, Bangladesh economy grew well when compared to Pakistan.
Pakistan & Bangladesh during their first 3–4 decades received a lot of aids from other countries for development.
Bangladesh has cordial relationship with its neighbors, it helped in its development, sure there might have been occasional hiccups here & there unlike Pakistan which is in conflict with 3 of its 4 neighbors, it didn’t help much as it affected trade relationship.
Bangladesh counts India among its top five trading partners and India also makes investments and has given more than billion of dollars for development purpose. On the other hand Pakistan isn’t on Indian radar in terms of trade, investments, development aids, etc.
So in brief, Bangla economy developed because of exports, stable government, utilization of foreign aids, good relations with neighbors, etc. areas in which Pakistan lagged over the course of time. It isn’t like Pakistan wasn’t developing better than Bangladesh. For some years it was doing much better than Bangladesh but due to its administrative problems, war & terrorism it got deviated from its path & during this time Bangladesh at its own pace marched ahead.