Imagine Bangladesh as a failed math student who finally gets a B after years of hard work. Next, let's look at Malaysia, which started as a grade B maths student and moved up to A.
As a Malaysian, I don't think you are giving Bangladesh the recognition it deserves for its current economic situation. At the same time, you are making an unfair comparison between the two countries of different nationalities.
On the one hand, you have Malaysia, a country that was never engulfed in a "war of liberation" before independence, whose entire economic infrastructure is intact, whose government has never been significantly unstable, and which has never dealt with mass genocide or rape.
has a relatively strong economy that trades with many countries after independence, has a much smaller population, which means less pressure in fighting poverty
