Thread by @dravirmani

For a decade or more one has been saying, "stop hyphenating India with Pakistan and start comparing Pakistan with Bangladesh"? With Bangladesh GDP higher than Pakistan's GDP, I still doubt this will happen (Hint: Indian Per capita GDP will again be higher than Bangladesh in 2021)

https://twitter.com/shekhargupta/status/1317367712390152193

2/bd #India's per capita GDP will return to a level higher than #Bangladesh by 2021, contrary to the simplistic, straight line growth projections in this 👇🏼 article. Keep a note of All the renowned economists who believed👇🏼, and compare after a year, with what I have said today.

https://twitter.com/bsindia/status/1317382341069819906

3/bd We first used the example of Bangladesh during 1990s to motivate labor reform; which were critical to promoting labor intensive garment/textile exports. Bangladesh Textile units had 1000s of workers, while our exporters were scared to hire >20, as they couldn't b fired...4/

4/bd Our tariffs are still relatively high, and tariff structure & EXIM procedures more complicated than that of more successful exporters. Consequently we remained outside global supply chains! Our tax bureaucracy has worst reputation globally (#EoDB=>simplify,digitize,integrate