Khan_21
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I don't care which kind of development you are talking about.City's importance lies in it's economy.Lahore has GDP and population less than half of Dhaka.Islamabad is a small city of 2 million.Latest data are hard to find for cities concerned here.According to McKinsy2010,GDP-
Dhaka-29 billion
Karachi-28 billion
Lahore-13 billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP
Chittagong's GDP is not much lower than Lahore.It is the center of trade and industry of BD and have highest per capita income.It's population more than 6 million.
Islamabad is rich but small.It is not very hard to create a planned city of rich for 1 percent of national population.I don't see any credit about having Islamabad being so nice.Pakistan was without any city suitable for capital(Karachi,Lahore are much vulnerable of Indian attack which mostly influenced for going after Islamabad). So a military dictator decided to build a city from scratch just besides of military headquarter.So it is small,planned and beautiful inhabited mostly by elite.
What most important is,Urbanization rate.In 1960 Bangladesh or East Pakistan had only 5 percent population urban while west Pakistan had 22 percent population urban.But in 2015,BD have urban population 34 percent and Pakistan 39 percent.So,Bangladesh started from bottom,now approaching Pakistan level.If BD was East Pakistan I don't think it would have crossed even 10 percent by now.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS
Since Lahore and Islamabad are much better lets compare Karachi and Dhaka shall we ? . The Stock Exchange in Karachi is bigger , GDP is bigger , Wider Roads , The Middle class and Upper middle class areas are much soothing to the eye compared to the cramped buildings in Dhaka (God knows how you guys manage to fit in 28 million in 200 sq) . It has Housing societies that wouldn't look out of place in a developed country .
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.H2O.SAFE.ZS
Improved water Access
Pakistan 91 %
Bangladesh 87 %
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.ACSN
Improved Sanitation Facilities (Urban Areas )
Pakistan 83 %
Bangladesh 58 %
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.ACSN.UR
I haven't even went into infrastructure where we boost the best road network in South Asia . Our 6 lane Expressways are more than 600 KM in length and will be reaching 2000 KM soon . While you guys are still stuck in 2-4 lanes .
This article, written by a Pakistani and published in Pakistan in 2014, states some real-life reasons why Bangladesh is doing just a bit better. Bangladesh has a long way to go and we certainly still have to call it a dump (as the rest of South Asia is), but please read and you will find out maybe a few things Pakistan could change - for the better............
https://tribune.com.pk/story/716177...why-bangladesh-is-doing-better-than-pakistan/
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This article was written in 2012 when TTP insurgency was at its peak . It had almost died down now and Pakistan is considered the next big thing according to many experts .
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/02/after-the-brics-its-time-to-focus-on-the-varps.html
Since the BRICs acronym was coined over a decade ago, it has gripped investors and news headlines alike. But with the traditionally perceived growth engines of Russia and Brazil in the midst of various phases of recession, as well as fundamental policy overhaul taking place in China, investors need to find pockets of opportunity in other frontier markets: Time to introduce VARP.
VARP – Vietnam, Argentina, Romania and Pakistan – represents a collection of geographies, languages, histories and business cultures with one thing in common: they each offer major growth opportunities. The VARP economies are characterized by strong economic growth, all within the 3 percent-6 percent range, with a young demographic of workers keen to spend money
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-next-for-asia-s-best-performing-stock-market
Pakistan has plowed an independent trajectory this year, outperforming both its fellow frontier markets and members of the emerging-market grouping that it is slated to join in 2017.
The country's benchmark KSE100 Index has rallied 27 percent year-to-date to become Asia’s best-performing equity market in 2016, according to a basket of 26 peers tracked by Bloomberg. The market received a boost in June when MSCI Inc. announced that it would reclassify Pakistan as part of its benchmark emerging-market index from May 2017 — a show of confidence that it declined to extend to China.
Pakistan got upgraded to MCSI emerging market , Bangladesh is still classified as a frontier market . Even 6 Pakistani companies got inlcuded in FTSE .
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1344303/ftse-includes-six-pakistani-companies-index/
As for General country as a whole BD is an LDC . Pakistan is not . Our middle class is the 18th largest in the world and an average Pakistan is twice wealthier than a Bangladeshi .