Guys, this thread deals with how middle class is growing fast in Bangladesh and how these people earn and spend money on extravagants, cars, motor bikes and tours to the sea beach and mountains. However, Indians have very successfully derailed this thread. Now, both sides are bickering and throwing muds at each other.
No one denies India is more developed because its developmemment started during British time. Bd started slowly after 1947, it was almost stagnated from 1971 to 1985s. But, somehow some of our small investors came forward and invested money in very very small apparel industries. Now, this 'Stitching' industry has mushroomed to a real textile industry that has surpaased even India's textile exports.
Basically, we remain a poor country. But, there have been a tremendous change in the society. When this country's foreign exchange earnings are a total of about $36 billion, it is real that some people have become very rich, some moderately rich and again some have become a part of middle class. There are certainly a group of slum dwellers, but things are changing fast because jobs are available for every able bodied and willing person.
In the villages, the farmers are becoming rich and becoming middle class people very fast with amenities like power tillers, tractors, bi-cycles and motor bikes. Yet, some people have to live hand to mouth. However, nobody can say there are deaths due to hunger any more in Bangladesh, although there are pockets of poverty.
So, Indians should not get a jitter when they see a quite developed Bangladesh comparing to what it was twenty years ago. They should accept what we have become and what our middle class people earn and how lavishly they spend. By the way, our people are not genetically a miser group of people.
So, when the rich and middle class people spend money, by law of economics, the money circulates among other groups of people and also percoalates to the poors. This is how the society is changing fast. Our poor people will certainly become a lower middle income group of people in the next 15 years. This is what the trend is.
Maybe couple of Km's but majority of your road network is little better than dirt tracks.
