{"id":307892,"date":"2026-02-24T15:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307892\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T15:26:12","slug":"bangladesh-seeks-to-keep-least-developed-status-amid-economic-stress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/307892\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh seeks to keep least developed status amid economic stress"},"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\">UN to consider delay to graduation that would preserve trade benefits<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"20260224 Bangladesh Market\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">People shop at a market in Dhaka\u00a0on Feb. 11. The new Bangladesh government has formally sought to defer the country&#8217;s exit from &#8220;least developed country&#8221; status, citing factors such as macroeconomic stress. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MASUM BILLAH<\/p>\n<p>February 24, 2026 15:50 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">DHAKA &#8212; The new Bangladesh government has formally sought to defer the country&#8217;s exit from &#8220;least developed country&#8221; (LDC) status, which would potentially expose it to higher trade barriers, citing macroeconomic stress, trade uncertainty and institutional weaknesses, although any actual delay hinges on several United Nations processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economy UN to consider delay to graduation that would preserve trade benefits People shop at a market in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7861,114,78631,16770,184,85,46,45847,27210,140277,154675,6210],"class_list":{"0":"post-307892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bangladesh","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-developed","11":"tag-economic","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-israel","15":"tag-keep","16":"tag-least","17":"tag-seeks","18":"tag-status","19":"tag-stress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}