GDP per capita
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India vs. Pakistan in one graph
X.T.M argues that GDP per capita, not total GDP, is the right India–Pakistan comparison. India overtook Pakistan after 2009, he says, because Pakistan’s higher fertility grew its population faster, while…
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India’s Wealth will not turn Pakistan into East Germany
X.T.M answers a commenter’s per-capita point: scale and per-capita income measure different things, and India’s size gives it weight. But economic weight is not destiny, India has not turned Pakistan…
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Pakistan – Falling Behind in the Indian Subcontinent
Bombay Badshah uses UN and Global Data Lab human development figures to argue that Pakistan now has the lowest HDI in the subcontinent, is set to fall below Nepal on…
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Pakistan as India’s Ukraine?
X.T.M asks whether Pakistan’s strategic patrons will ever lift its human development, and offers the analogy of India and Pakistan as Russia and Ukraine, with Ukraine imagined as nuclear-armed. He…
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Yogi has not been an economic miracle man for UP…so far
Contributor Yajnavalkya uses state growth and fiscal data to argue that Yogi Adityanath’s six-plus years in Uttar Pradesh have delivered underwhelming growth, only about 20 basis points above the national…
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Female labor force participation in India
Reacting to a Wall Street Journal piece, the author argues that India’s low female workforce participation of 24% contrasts with Bangladesh’s textile-driven 38%, and compares the effect of young women’s…
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Beyond the Bangladeshi basket-case
A quoted report that Bangladesh’s per capita GDP, $1,905 in 2019 on IMF data, now exceeds West Bengal’s $1,566 and most eastern Indian states, with the poster noting Bangladesh is…
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The determinants of prosperity in South Asia
The author charts GDP per capita across South Asian states, provinces and countries to ask whether policy and state capacity or geography and history explain prosperity, and identifies roughly five…
