{"id":759200,"date":"2026-06-25T11:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759200\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:05:14","slug":"bangladesh-turns-to-80bn-adb-backed-economic-corridor-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/759200\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh turns to $80bn ADB-backed economic corridor for growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/economy\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Initiative&#8217;s success seen hinging on reforms to lure private capital<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20260624 ADB\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The Asian Development Bank-backed Integrated Growth Network Development initiative seeks to build an economic corridor through Bangladesh, integrating transport, logistics, ports, energy, industrial zones, digital infrastructure and skills development. (Source photos by Suzu Takahashi and Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">DHAKA &#8212; Bangladesh is looking to an ambitious $80 billion economic corridor supported by the Asian Development Bank as it pushes to boost areas beyond the sprawling cities of Dhaka and Chattogram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy Initiative&#8217;s success seen hinging on reforms to lure private capital The Asian Development Bank-backed Integrated Growth Network&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[362839,362840,64,63,13047,99,55757,15261,164,208,168963],"class_list":["post-759200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-80bn","tag-adb-backed","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bangladesh","tag-business","tag-corridor","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-growth","tag-turns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}