An Accelerating Bangladesh and an Emerging India—Some Selected Economic Comparatives

Bangladesh completed its fiftieth birth anniversary in 2021. Before being partitioned in 1947 as the eastern part of Pakistan, modern Bangladesh was a major political segment of Bengal of undivided India. A homogenous population, overwhelmingly Muslim majority inherits the ‘sunny signs’ of tolerance, peace-loving, hardworking, competitive, and material wellbeing. India, on the other hand, a much-diversified non-homogenous country majority being Hindu still retains the imprint of Muslim rule—the marvelous “Taj Mahal” one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Today’s India is the fifth-largest economy in the world with around 1.4 billion population having a good technological and professional base. A comparison between these two sovereign countries may always remain debatable. Since both societies are striving for a common goal of a higher standard of living for their citizens, an attempt to compare the relative performance in the area of economic development using some universal indicators may shed some light on policy implications. This may generate a spirit of healthy enthusiasm and competitiveness among the citizens of these two countries and the people living around them in particular and other developing nations in general. After all, we are living in an era when science and technological developments made the entire world a global village and when mutual research, feedback, collaboration, and cooperation are increasingly warranted for a better world.