{"id":337060,"date":"2026-03-13T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/337060\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:50:15","slug":"bangladeshs-inflation-woes-heightened-by-iran-war-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/337060\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh&#8217;s inflation woes heightened by Iran war fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/iran-tensions\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran tensions<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">New government tries to balance investment needs and holding down prices<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/6\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20260313 Bangladesh Inflation\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Rickshaws and cars move through traffic on a street in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Feb. 11. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">DHAKA &#8212; The effects of the Iran war on energy costs are threatening to exacerbate Bangladesh&#8217;s inflation, which has already hit a 10-month high and risen for four straight months, complicating the new government&#8217;s economic recovery efforts and plans by the new <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\/bangladesh-central-bank-shake-up-tests-reform-credibility-of-bnp\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">central bank governor<\/a> to cut interest rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran tensions New government tries to balance investment needs and holding down prices Rickshaws and cars move through&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[145404,114,184,25590,165388,85,932,87,46,2201,21927],"class_list":["post-337060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bangladeshs","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-fallout","tag-heightened","tag-il","tag-inflation","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-war","tag-woes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337060","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=337060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}