Need for a proper land planning

[UKBengali]

You are talking out of blue and with baseless political vendetta against west Pakistan, same as AL. Point is not how many kms were built in the west and how many in the east. Point is how many kms in total was built before 1971 in the east and how many kms have been built during the last 46 years after 1971.

Have you ever compared the maps of both east and west? Why do not you think that west is a vast territory, where road building was easier and less costlier than it is in the watery marsh land of east? So, a larger length of road construction is possible in the west than it is in the east with the same amount of fund.

A person does not have to be a B.Sc civil engineer to understand that a very high construction cost is required for a road that needs a 5 m high earth filling work. Earthwork is the most expensive component of a road, although it is not readily understood by the normal people. Usually, people see only the asphalt or concrete.

I am not telling there was no discrepancy before 1971. But, where do you find discrepancy after 1971, when road construction got a minor importance? Now, AL bigots will come out saying it is India that do not allow BD to build anything!!!

Again, what is wrong with you dude?

10% of the national highway roads have already been converted to 4 lanes since AL came into power in 2009. Another national highway is being converted as we speak. There are plans to upgrade the rest within the next decade.
Dhaka RSTP 2016-2035 in partnership with Japan will revolutionise Dhaka and cross-country BD transport infrastructure. Metro rail line 6 and Elevated expressway 1 being built now are first of this huge project.
Power statiion are being built as dizzying rates.

What is your agenda here dude?

 

[Skies]

Until now THERE IS not a single road in BD as per the best ones in PK, yet BAL is dancing with all the claims including the claims like Samudra Joy, Mohakash Jay etc. like they had made BD pioneer and all others are dumbass.

What is your agenda here dude?

Not embarrassing BD with unreal claims...........Singapore, Taiwan, Japan etx

 

[UKBengali]

Not embarrassing BD with unreal claims...........Singapore, Taiwan, Japan etx

I have already asked you to research and learn something before typing.

No-one here is claiming that BD is anywhere near the level of Singapore, Taiwan, japan etc.
What has happened this decade is that BD is starting to show signs of developing like the former east Asian "Tigers" with GDP/capita growth set to hit nearly 7% this year.

As a BD'shi it makes me cringe that someone with a BD flag posts with next to no idea of what they are talking about.

 

[Skies]

I have already asked you to research and learn something before typing.

No-one here is claiming that BD is anywhere near the level of Singapore, Taiwan, japan etc.
What has happened this decade is that BD is starting to show signs of developing like the former east Asian "Tigers" with GDP/capita growth set to hit nearly 7% this year.

As a BD'shi it makes me cringe that someone with a BD flag posts with next to no idea of what they are talking about.

You claim of the amount of wealth transfer by w.pk is fabricated.

Hence, as per your argument, the advanced increment of wealth of W.PK at compound rate is not reasonable.

 

[UKBengali]

You claim of the amount of wealth transfer by w.pk is fabricated.

Hence, as per your argument, the advanced increment of wealth of W.PK at compound rate is not reasonable.

This is way beyond your abilities to comprehend.

The damage done by BD not being able to use it's own resources to develop at a time when jute prices were high(1950s and 1960s) and the consequent destruction of BD infrastructure and intellectual capital in the 1971 war cannot be understated.

Leave it now as you are a waste of time as you have neither the education or intelligence to understand a complex topic like this.

 

[Skies]

This is way beyond your abilities to comprehend.

The damage done by BD not being able to use it's own resources to develop at a time when jute prices were high(1950s and 1960s) and the consequent destruction of BD infrastructure and intellectual capital in the 1971 war cannot be understated.

Leave it now as you are a waste of time as you have neither the education or intelligence to understand a complex topic like this.

Anything that can not be understood with quantitative figures is subjected to be biased.

Since you do not have enough knowledge to do research in that way, your claim is not any solid conclusion.

 

[Nilgiri]

What BD economic data is true then?

Whatever survives in a SDDS standard (even then its not perfectly "true", but at least one can say heading in the right direction). Can only adjudge that much later (and before when more things correlate better with each other without this much price inflation ruining for the 99% for the 1% to benefit from feelz and asset inflation)....right now its a big disgusting mess:

There is some disquiet among economists about the quality of data provided by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). No less a person than the Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister has expressed his dissatisfaction about the qualifications of the BBS staff and the quality of their work. These are very long standing problems, and yet, very little has been done to improve the quality of the services provided by BBS.

https://opinion.bdnews24.com/2017/12/18/where-did-the-benefits-of-economic-growth-disappear/

(Author showed his mettle versus BBS, by applying CPI inflation to raw nominal income rather than quoting just nominal as improvement like BBS did in its HIES 2016 report).

@bluesky @Centaur @Skies

 

[UKBengali]

Whatever survives in a SDDS standard (even then its not perfectly "true", but at least one can say heading in the right direction). Can only adjudge that much later (and before when more things correlate better with each other without this much price inflation ruining for the 99% for the 1% to benefit from feelz and asset inflation)....right now its a big disgusting mess:

There is some disquiet among economists about the quality of data provided by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). No less a person than the Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister has expressed his dissatisfaction about the qualifications of the BBS staff and the quality of their work. These are very long standing problems, and yet, very little has been done to improve the quality of the services provided by BBS.

https://opinion.bdnews24.com/2017/12/18/where-did-the-benefits-of-economic-growth-disappear/

(Author showed his mettle versus BBS, by applying CPI inflation to raw nominal income rather than quoting just nominal as improvement like BBS did in its HIES 2016 report).

@bluesky @Centaur @Skies

Your opinion is worth less than used toilet paper.
lol.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

This is way beyond your abilities to comprehend.

The damage done by BD not being able to use it's own resources to develop at a time when jute prices were high(1950s and 1960s) and the consequent destruction of BD infrastructure and intellectual capital in the 1971 war cannot be understated.

Leave it now as you are a waste of time as you have neither the education or intelligence to understand a complex topic like this.

Building up capital for Industrialization is an upheaval task for a very poor country like Bangladesh was in 1970s and 1980s.If you look at the history of East and South East Asian countries, who attained splendid economic growth in 1970s,1980s and 1990s, their time for preparation was in 1950s and 1960s.They were also very poor in 1950s. But they already gained Independence and political stability by that time and focused on saving the scares resources for investment. They reaped the benefit in 1970s to 1990s of their works in 1950s and 1960s preparatory stages. I remember, during 1960s, South Korea sent investigative team in West Pakistan to study their industrial boom.That was the time when West Pakistan was achieving high growth in industry and manufacturing(mostly thanks to funded by East Pakistani export and captive market). Bangladesh had the opportunity in 1950s and 1960s when we had the chance to fund the investment in industry by jute money. But Pakistani rules robbed us that opportunity.When Bangladesh finally became independent, it's main export items then experiencing the nose-dive. Then we had to start from scratch by picking up the readymade garments in 1980s. this sector eventually became big and gave us the much needed capital to invest in industry, service and agriculture. Whose benefit we are now seeing as Bangladesh is now achieving 7+ percent growth including 11-12 percent growth in industry.So what we could have done in 1950s and 1960s like other Asian countries, we had to done that in 1990s and 2000s.Some neo-rakakar here has a severe allergy to hear this simple truth of long term consequences of economic mismanagement and exploitation.They think, a poor country like Bangladesh can build-up capital out of thin air and can run like South Korea or Taiwan as soon as it became independent. Do you think, they really have interest in a prosperous Bangladesh? No, they just want to get a primitive pleasure by abusing and ridiculing it for it's shortcoming(many of which was imposed) by taking the same line of some buthurt, denialist Indian and Pakistanis.

 

[Nilgiri]

Your opinion is worth less than used toilet paper.
lol.

Yet you asked for it...guess 70% poverty bongs from ghetto london slum are experts on wanting used toilet paper.

@django @Desert Fox @Ocean @Psychic @Aung Zaya

That was the time when West Pakistan was achieving high growth in industry and manufacturing(mostly thanks to funded by East Pakistani export and captive market).

LOL...wrong!

 

[UKBengali]

Building up capital for Industrialization is an upheaval task for a very poor country like Bangladesh was in 1970s and 1980s.If you look at the history of East and South East Asian countries, who attained splendid economic growth in 1970s,1980s and 1990s, their time for preparation was in 1950s and 1960s.They were also very poor in 1950s. But they already gained Independence and political stability by that time and focused on saving the scares resources for investment. They reaped the benefit in 1970s to 1990s of their works in 1950s and 1960s preparatory stages. I remember, during 1960s, South Korea sent investigative team in West Pakistan to study their industrial boom.That was the time when West Pakistan was achieving high growth in industry and manufacturing(mostly thanks to funded by East Pakistani export and captive market). Bangladesh had the opportunity in 1950s and 1960s when we had the chance to fund the investment in industry by jute money. But Pakistani rules robbed us that opportunity.When Bangladesh finally became independent, it's main export items then experiencing the nose-dive. Then we had to start from scratch by picking up the readymade garments in 1980s. this sector eventually became big and gave us the much needed capital to invest in industry, service and agriculture. Whose benefit we are now seeing as Bangladesh is now achieving 7+ percent growth including 11-12 percent growth in industry.So what we could have done in 1950s and 1960s like other Asian countries, we had to done that in 1990s and 2000s.Some neo-rakakar here has a severe allergy to hear this simple truth or long term consequence of economic mismanagement and exploitation.They think, a poor country like Bangladesh can build-up capital out of thin air and can run like South Korea or Taiwan as soon as it became independent. Do you think, they really have interest in a prosperous Bangladesh? No, they just want to get a primitive pleasure by abusing and ridiculing it for it's shortcoming(many of which was imposed) by taking the same line of some buthurt, denialist Indian and Pakistanis.

I ignore them as they are generally stupid and it is fun that they are butt-hurt as AL will rule BD for many more years to come. BNP is truly finished and will never come into power in it's current form.

We can celebrate BD's continuing economic and military progress under AL and so the future looks bright.

 

[Homo Sapiens]

I ignore them as they are generally stupid and it is fun that they are butt-hurt as AL will rule BD for many more years to come. BNP is truly finished and will never come into power in it's current form.

We can celebrate BD's continuing economic and military progress under AL and so the future looks bright.

I am oblivious about which party in power if it can propel the development of the country.If BNP were in power now and Bangladesh achieved 7+ growth, I would not have denied that and remained positive to our development. I am not a party-blind person or put interest of the party above the nation. Here some Bangladeshis, who want Bangladesh to fail, so that Awami league get discredited and BNP-Jamat get an excuse to rise to power. I despise this line of thinking.

 

[UKBengali]

I am oblivious about which party in power if it can propel the development of the country.If BNP were in power now and Bangladesh achieved 7+ growth, I would not have denied that and remained positive to our development. I am not a party-blind person or put interest of the party above the nation. Here some Bangladeshis, who want Bangladesh to fail, so that Awami league get discredited and BNP-Jamat get an excuse to rise to power. I despise this line of thinking.

BNP in it's current form with Khaleda and her son must never be allowed to come into power.

I support AL as they are the best that is available right now. They must rule till the mid-2020s at least.

BD people have seen how much better that AL has been over BNP and that is why there has been no uprising against them. After what happened in 1971, not even a murderous army can stop BD population from overthrowing tyrants.

 

[bluesky]

There is some disquiet among economists about the quality of data provided by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS). No less a person than the Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister has expressed his dissatisfaction about the qualifications of the BBS staff and the quality of their work. These are very long standing problems, and yet, very little has been done to improve the quality of the services provided by BBS.

Many of the BBS data are fabricated by the gov. authority to look good to the outside world. If it is not so, why there is no improvement of living standard in the country, specially Dhaka. Now, the AL bigots will send tons of photographs of high-rise bldgs. to prove me wrong. The high rises prove only that the country's money have been accumulated in only a few hands, because the govt has been unable to check the looting of its party cronies.

Instead, a developing country's govt should focus on building a system whereby taxes, including income tax, are properly collected, and plan and build roads, footpaths, drainage and garbage collection systems which can benefit everyone, rich or poor. All these are absent. It should improve then the transport system. You can see it is not happening by watching the rickety low quality buses plying in the Dhaka streets. It means, the govt. has failed as the administrator of the country. Instead, it is sending biased BBS data to look BD good.

 

[Skies]

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GDP is like a speedometer: it tells you whether your economy is going faster or slower. As in cars, a speedometer is useful but doesn’t tell you everything you want to know. For example, it won’t tell you whether you are overheating, or about to run out of fuel. Above all, the speedometer doesn’t tell you whether or not you’re going in the right direction.

(So the alternatives to GDP are)

Productivity vs. Spending
The relationship between production and spending is a quintessential chicken -and-egg debate in economics. Most economists agree that total spending, adjusted for inflation, is a byproduct of productive output. They disagree, however, if productivity increases spending is in itself an indication of growth.

(So, need to know BD's position regarding this)

Unemployment
Employment statistics tell us what proportion of people have jobs. They don’t tell us what proportion of those with jobs are paid too little to afford a decent standard of living, or worry about whether they’ll still have work next month.

(So, need to know BD's position regarding this)

National Income
It represents the income earned by a country's citizens. National income can be computed by summing interest, rents, employee compensation (wages and benefits), proprietors' income and corporate profits.

Personal income represents income available for personal use. It is computed by making various adjustments to national income.

Disposable personal income (or disposable income) is income available to people after taxes; i.e., it is personal income less individual taxes. (So, need to know BD's position regarding this)

Key measures of economic performance

Traditionally, the key measures of economic performance in macroeconomics include:

1. Economic growth – real GDP growth.
2. Inflation – e.g. target CPI inflation of 2% (need to know BD's position regarding this)
   
3. Unemployment – target of full employment (need to know BD's position regarding this)
   
4. Current account – satisfactory current account, e.g. low deficit.

Other measures of economic performance can include:

• Government borrowing/national debt
• Real disposable incomes (need to know BD's position regarding this)
  
• Income inequality (Gini coefficient) (need to know BD's position regarding this)
  
• Labour productivity
• Investment levels
• Exchange rate
• Measures of well-being – surveys which measure overall living standards. e.g. ONS well-being index. (need to know BD's position regarding this)
  
• Human development index (HDI) – It is a composite index which includes real GDP per capita and also factors such as education, healthcare and environmental factors.

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