Against the prevailing narrative of the The Belt and Road as a top-down strategy to spread China’s geopolitical influence, there is the BRI’s impact through its first decade as emanating «from the middle out and bottom up» via transport-enabled corridors traversing a large number of regions within and across national territories.

The report of the Eurasian Development Bank contains a database of investment projects for the development of the infrastructure of the three routes of the North-South ITC, which are being implemented or planned in seven states of the region.