The Amazon Economy Under Attack: Why the Critics Are Wrong on India, Wrong on China, and Wrong On Bangladesh
15 November 2025 The latest “cold-eyed” critique of Bangladesh’s Amazon Economy blueprint tries to do three things at once: 1. Shrink India’s digital export success into a cautionary tale because India has a trade deficit with China. 2. Pretend Amazon is structurally built only for Chinese factories, so everyone else is just collateral damage. 3. Use toy arithmetic to declare Bangladesh’s targets for exporters and jobs “fantasy”. Let’s take that apart properly. 1. India Is Our Benchmark, Not Our Punchline The critic’s favourite move is: “India’s programme has been running for nine years in an economy ten times larger. It has maybe 150,000 exporters. So how can Bangladesh dream of 300,000?” Three problems. (a) They’re lowballing India Amazon’s own latest numbers say something else: - Indian sellers have already crossed $20 billion in cumulative e-commerce exports through Amazon’s Global Selling programme since 2015. - Amazon now publicly targets $80 billion b...