South Asian country with the biggest Economic potential

[Lord ZeN]

Vote while keeping in mind future economic "potential" of the country of your choice not the present economic condition. Also compare the countries based on future per-capita income , business environment , manufacturing capacity , infra , trade you expect the country of your choice to achieve and not solely on the size of Economies. I know prediction don't really matter but just give your honest opinion on each nation's economic potentials also taking their strategic location into consideration. Currently Sri Lanka leads the race.

 

[Azizam]

India or Sri Lanka because of relative stability if the governments play their cards right. Bhutan is not interested in business and Maldives is about to get wiped out because of global warming.

 

[ito]

India and Sri Lanka...

 

[Lord ZeN]

India or Sri Lanka because of relative stability if the governments play their cards right. Bhutan is not interested in business and Maldives is about to get wiped out because of global warming.

I also believe that Sri Lanka has the biggest potential given your location & your proximity to the trade route where Indian ocean trade (which is bound to increase) takes place. Sri Lanka can really become a bigger version of Singapore given that gov. of SL don't mess up things.

 

[ito]

I also believe that Sri Lanka has biggest potential given your location & your proximity to the trade route where Indian ocean trade (which is bound to increase) takes place. Sri Lanka can really become a bigger version of Singapore given that gov. of SL not mess up things.

Sri lanka is too small to have an economic impact that India can have. But I am sure by per capita measure Sri lanka will be ahead of India

 

[Lord ZeN]

Sri lanka is too small to have an economic impact that India can have. But I am sure by per capita measure Sri lanka will be ahead of India

Well we all know India is certainly gonna remain the economic power house of the region & India is certainly gonna make the biggest economic impact. But that's not my question it's about the economic progress irrespective of size of Economy. Taiwan with the very same size of SL makes a really big impact on world economy.

 

[Diggy]

india bcz of market size , area etc , lot of companies would want to set up their shops in india as they wouldn't want to loose on such a huge market , availability of cheap skilled and unskilled work force , huge coastline and controls indian ocean.

probs are red tape , bad political class which puts political interests ahead of national growth , hyperactive media which will never let govt work with peace etc

second should be pakistan , lot of potential , they are some 18 crore people (huge market) , geographic position connects china to central asia , can be a transit centre connecting south asia , east asia with central asia and europe. Availability of cheap labor also maybe

probs are again red tape (guessing) , volatile political situation , army control over everything , should stop thinking from religious angle for everything.

i would put bhutan and nepal at the bottom.


per capital income of sri lanka will continue to be highest for years to come.

 

[RISING SUN]

There will be two answers probably. First if we go by most absolute number then it will be India obiviously due to its sheer. Second way if we see then most underdeveloped country has most economy growth potential which might be just anyone in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

Maldives is about to get wiped out because of global warming.

That was cruel

 

[ito]

Well we all know India is certainly gonna remain the economic power house of the region & India is certainly gonna make the biggest economic impact. But that's not my question it's about the economic progress irrespective of size of Economy. Taiwan with the very same size of SL makes a really big impact on world economy.

It is hard to say...SL is Lower middle income country...So for becoming Singapore or Taiwan, SL has to cover lot of progress.

 

[bongbang]

I hope India remains on top of BD for some more years. We cant have 1.2 billion people pole vault inside our territory for better life.

 

[Stephen Cohen]

We cant have 1.2 billion people pole vault inside our territory for better life.

Why will we pole vault ; we will simply invade and take over Bangladesh

 

[RepublicOk]

India and Sri Lanka.. I read somewhere that Sri Lanka fucked up big time on some economic fronts in the past else it would have been at the same level as Singapore.
As for India we ain't looking back..

 

[Gibbs]

India and Sri Lanka.. Given it's sheer size of the market and economy and a stable govt India will be the main engine of growth.. Sri Lanka is already ahead of it's South Asian peers in Development goals and GDP per Capita etc.. For it it's just a matter of continuing that growth trajectory.. Preferably supplementing Indian economic growth and acting as the service and logistics hub for South Asia.. Ala Hong Kong for China and Singapore as the gateway to Asean

If not for the internal political instability Pakistan would have been ahead of all these nations given it's strategic importance.. Short periods of growth spurts during Musharaf Governance are examples of it's potencial

 

[farhan_9909]

All south asian countries are growing with atleast more than +5% growth rate with further room for expansion.

Pakistan has lot of potential though i voted for india