Blah blah blah......end of the day Bangladesh is a poor swampy floodplain the size of North Korea...whereas India has an entire subcontinent and ocean named after it.....and is massively more relevant to the world economy today than Bangladesh can ever dream of becoming. India has lower poverty, better education, large prosperous states (with 3 or 4 times the per capita income of Bangladesh) and faster growing poorer ones (closer to the income levels of B'desh).
Take just one metric that can be easily be end-verified by 3rd parties: FDI.
We get more FDI in our worst month of the year than Bangladesh does in the entire year.
In fact in the last 12 months, the FDI was nearly 34 billion USD in total. These are numbers India cannot fabricate or make up since they arise from elsewhere.
India Foreign Direct Investment | 1995-2015 | Data | Chart | Calendar
Now lets see Bangladesh:
Bangladesh Foreign Direct Investment | 2002-2015 | Data | Chart | Calendar
1.5 billion USD for the entire 2014....and its dropping from the last year.
And you are expecting anyone to believe that Bangladesh is growing at 8% if Bangladesh says so? LOL. Dont damage your JUNK credit rating (not investment grade like India) anymore than you need to Mr Lungi.
List of countries by credit rating - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
We are only going to keep pulling away from you (you should be growing faster than us since you are poorer by far):
Report for Selected Countries and Subjects
The final result is quite telling:
India was 3% of the world economy in 1980, Bangladesh was 0.32%. So we were about 10 times more significant.
By 2020 India is predicted to be 8.5% of the world economy, Bangladesh will be 0.59%. In 2020 we will be 14 times more significant than you (and also factor our population is a little more than 7 times yours only)....and that significance number will only keep increasing....considering the vast chasms between the two countries in education levels + absolute poverty (which determines how many have crossed into the threshold of low income but aspiring to be middle class). Basically we nearly tripled in world economic impact in 40 years, while you only doubled....and that too we did it from a much higher per capita income base....and lower poverty.
Poverty & Equity Data | India | The World Bank - 21.3% absolute poor in 2011
Poverty & Equity Data | Bangladesh | The World Bank - 43.7% absolute poor in 2010
And Indias figure may be a lot lower in 2011:
http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/pubdoc...09701443800596288/PRN03-Oct2015-TwinGoals.pdf
Box 2 page 12, World Bank accepts Indian absolute poverty rate may have been as low as 12.4%.
Education comparison:
Pakistan, ISI "biggest threat" to India & Bangladesh : Bangladesh diplomat | Page 6
You are simply nowhere near the same league as us. You don't need to be so butthurt about that.