Belt and Road Initiative & Bangladesh

4.1 Bangladesh in the BRI ● ● CENTRE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE It may be mentioned here that economic cooperation within the BCIM region was promoted by Professor Rehman Sobhan, Chairman of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), Bangladesh. His pioneering ideas eventually led to the development of the platform in the 1990s, known as the "Kunming Initiative“, which later on came to be known as the BCIM Forum. Under his leadership, CPD later on pursued various activities to promote greater collaboration in the region. During the 11th BCIM Forum organised by CPD in 2013, a car rally was coincided which started in Kolkata and completed in Kunming, popularly coined as K2K Car Rally. Belt and Road Initiative & Bangladesh 17

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