Bangladesh Could Become Asia's Strongest Economy

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Bangladeshi here. In simple words, too much corruption, our country maybe getting rich but most money goes to only a small minority on the top.

As a Malaysian who works with many migrant Bangladeshi construction workers. They're the most resourceful, smart, industrious, and hardest-working people I know. Sadly, Bangladeshi government has prevented many of them from getting the right schooling and opportunities because I know they could easily go very far in life.

"lots of people died" is a very hand wavey way of describing a genocide

I know talking about genocide would get the video demonitized, but that is genuinely one of the reasons. 1971 marked a brutal killing of the intellectual class of the country along with the educated and the minorities. It's a miracle Bangladesh isn't a failed state (like Pakistan)

As a Bangladeshi, I agree somewhat with this video. We have done way more than what was expected of us. We are a model nation of how to get out of abject poverty. But there is a long way to go if we want to compete with the big boys. What I disagree is that this video paints a very grim picture. Its not that bad. Also, we did not seperate from Pakistan because of a cyclone, we separated because of genocide by the Pakistani Punjabis.

I'm not sure someone thought Bangladesh would be a new China

Too small. There you go, saved you 13 minutes.

as a Bangladeshi who has been following this channel since its <10k subscribers days, boy that felt like an eternity. You got almost everything right, except few key issues. Still a great work.

As a regular viewer of EE and as a 21 year old Bangladeshi I confirm that, a lot of young people have given up the hope that we're going to see a real change in our lifetime, seeing the shear amount of corruption, pollution and chaos around us, most of the university students just want to leave this country anyhow by getting a scholarship abroad after undergraduate. And there's no doubt that we've been lied to about the growth vs inflation, the average Bangladeshi has to do very difficult maths when shopping for something as necessary as daily groceries now, and It's not an exaggeration, practically any Bangladeshi can relate.

Isn’t the national leaderboard getting too crowded with US states? I mean, they aren’t nations.

Last time I was this early, China was projected to economically overtake The US

As an Indian, I really want my neighbour to develop. A developed South Asia will look very beautiful.

An economically prosperous and politically stable Bangladesh will be a blessing for India as we would have a sizeable market to export our goods and services while having a stable country in our neighborhood which is quite rare for us .

0:32 I dont think south east asia considers Bangladesh as part of it. Since it is a country found by breaking off from pakistan/india, it is generally considered a south asian country

A lot of places should be rich.

Something that I would say was overlooked here was about geography (I am from Canada so I don't know that much about other aspects of the country). Bangladesh looks like it has loads of natural harbours and really good water access. It is central to the population of the planet with China, India, SE Asia, Indonesia all nearby. So rather than taking resources up a river like the Mississippi, St Lawrence, Yellow or Yangtze, it would always be much easier to go and deliver raw materials to the Bangladesh coast, manufacture it there and then ship it out to the world. If it works for t-shirts, it can work for cars, ships, and every manufactured good. Lowering shipping costs is key to so many industries and Bangladesh is in a prime position to capitalize on that. They also have the man power to boot. It looks like a country full of great potential to me

Watching this video from Manila and thinking that, like Bangladesh, the Philippines really has a long way to go before it is living up to its potential. An English-speaking country with access to much of Asia, yet still relies heavily on OFWs (overseas foreign workers) to keep its economy afloat. Someday, the Philippines will live up to its potential, but not today.

I never understand why people claim the westminster legal system is somehow better then other systems. There is a reason why very few countries outside of the former colonies have adopted such a system as it tends towards deadlock, antagonism and seperatism.

The main problem in Bangladesh is corruption and political pressure. If we can clean our act we will definitely be a developed country. Love from Bangladesh.