It is common knowledge that Indian customer prefer cheap goods over quality goods. That's why everything is sold in India as a minipack.You also have nano,micro,pico vehicles.
Don't tell me that Indian are more quality conscious than Bangladeshi.Indian are cheap both outwardly and mentally.
Sticking to just appliances:
http://www.dnaindia.com/money/repor...y-lg-more-ramp-up-production-capcaity-2157175
Does Bangladesh have such companies factories?
Or its just walton chinese-sourced assembly....with total yearly revenue of under 500 million USD?
Basically if a Bangladeshi consumer wants a non-Walton product, they have to import.....and it will probably be from India
. Hence a large part of the trade deficit.
I mean how long till Bangladesh gets some variety in locally produced appliances? Thats what I mean by 10 years or more behind.
Price levels and purchasing power parity (since we do not buy anything inside the country in US dollars, neither are the products at US price levels).
Theres a reason why Bangladeshis rely on used throw away cars from Japan to the tune of 80% of private cars (as small as the car market is in Bangladesh) whereas India actually now exports cars to Japan.
If we bring in PPP (i.e look at actual consumption volumes more....how many units of appliances, energy, housing, food etc.. are consumed per capita)....India will end up having per capita industrial output more than double or triple that of Bangladesh....which sounds way more along the lines of what we see on the ground.
BTW, if you want to make fun of small cars, you can make fun of the Japanese too then and say they are cheap as well...since thats where the kei car originated.
But first you must develop an actual consumer base for cars in the first place to be taken seriously. You really think Bangladesh if it ever gets around to manufacturing cars, will be making large sedans for its overpopulated and traffic jammed streets?
Just take out BPO and sofware export off the economy and you will know how much India is dependent on export.
Tell me. How reliant are we:
http://stat.wto.org/CountryProfile/WSDBCountryPFView.aspx?Language=E&Country=IN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...h-82-billion-in-FY15/articleshow/50095779.cms
Total services (incl IT and BPO) are much less than our merchandise goods exports (even less than our manufactured exports). Combining all goods and services (not just IT and BPO) its about 500 billion dollars in exports. Still a fraction of our entire economy.
But good to know we export around 2 to 3 times the entire Bangladesh GDP....and thats still just a quarter to a fifth of our total output.