{"id":365878,"date":"2026-01-12T09:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365878\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T09:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:22:24","slug":"as-bangladesh-vote-nears-yunus-hands-over-economy-on-surer-footing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365878\/","title":{"rendered":"As Bangladesh vote nears, Yunus hands over economy on surer footing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/politics\/bangladesh-turmoil\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bangladesh turmoil<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Economic wins offset by political turmoil; debt and export issues linger<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/4\/3.jpeg\" alt=\"20250107 Yunus\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Muhammad Yunus&#8217; interim\u00a0government has largely succeeded in reviving growth and restoring a degree of macroeconomic stability. (Photo by Yuki Kohara)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>DOULOT AKTER MALA<\/p>\n<p>January 12, 2026 11:22 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">DHAKA &#8212; When Muhammad Yunus became head of Bangladesh&#8217;s interim government in the wake of the ouster\u00a0of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, the country&#8217;s economy was staring at collapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bangladesh turmoil Economic wins offset by political turmoil; debt and export issues linger Muhammad Yunus&#8217; interim\u00a0government has largely&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17266,84,1294,139956,14805,38103,75533,56,54,55,51656,139955],"class_list":["post-365878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-bangladesh","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-footing","tag-hands","tag-nears","tag-surer","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vote","tag-yunus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}