{"id":46823,"date":"2022-07-28T22:12:38","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/28\/bangladesh-to-hold-talks-with-imf-after-applying-for-bailout"},"modified":"2022-07-28T22:12:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T13:12:38","slug":"bangladesh-to-hold-talks-with-imf-after-applying-for-bailout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=46823","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh to hold talks with IMF after applying for bailout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka is understood to be seeking $4.5bn rescue package after being hit by high import costs and falling exports<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh is to hold talks with the International Monetary Fund after applying for a bailout to prevent the country running out of cash.<\/p>\n<p>The government in Dhaka \u2013 the third in south Asia to seek a financial rescue package from the IMF after Pakistan and Sri Lanka \u2013 is understood to want $4.5bn (\u00a33.7bn) after it was hit hard by high import prices, especially for gas, and a fall in exports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/jul\/26\/imf-slashes-global-growth-forecast-as-top-three-economies-stall\">as the global economy slowed down<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/28\/bangladesh-to-hold-talks-with-imf-after-applying-for-bailout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka is understood to be seeking $4.5bn rescue package after being hit by high import costs and falling exportsBangladesh is to hold talks with the International Monetary Fund after applying for a bailout to prevent the country running out of cash.The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,6,437,59,1333,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-business","category-economics","category-global-development","category-international-monetary-fund-imf","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46824,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46823\/revisions\/46824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}